Tree removal in Tonawanda, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Tonawanda that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 13, 2021; July 8, 2021; and November 15, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 59 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 6,900 households live in Tonawanda. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the 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 3 miles from Tonawanda, averages 133 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 53 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Erie County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024