Tree removal in South Lansing, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near South Lansing that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 30, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 400 households live in South Lansing. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1987.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from South Lansing, averages 148 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 65 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 Tompkins County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Village of Groton.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024