Tree removal in Smithfield, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Smithfield that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 21, 2024; August 31, 2024; and July 7, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 430 households live in Smithfield. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1951.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Smithfield, averages 124 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 40 at or below 20°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 2 electric utilities with service territory in Fayette County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Somerset Rural Elec Coop, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024