Tree removal in Trafford, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Trafford that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 26, 2024; July 20, 2023; and August 22, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,460 households live in Trafford. 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 1953.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from Trafford, averages 129 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 43 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 Westmoreland County, among them Duquesne Light Co and FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024