Tree removal in Summit Hill, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Summit Hill that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 27, 2024 and July 15, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,220 households live in Summit Hill. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1940.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Summit Hill, averages 132 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 44 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Carbon County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Lehighton; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024