Tree removal in Tower City, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Tower City that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 29, 2020; July 22, 2019; and June 29, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 520 households live in Tower City. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the 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 14 miles from Tower City, averages 128 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 Schuylkill County, among them PPL Electric Utilities Corp and Borough of Schuylkill Haven; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024