Tree removal in Taylor, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Taylor that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 30, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,440 households live in Taylor. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1963.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Taylor, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Lackawanna County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Blakely; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024