Tree removal in Vails Gate, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Vails Gate that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 7, 2023 and June 30, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 96 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,450 households live in Vails Gate. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1967. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Vails Gate, averages 110 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 38 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 Orange County, among them Central Hudson Gas & Elec Corp and New York State Elec & Gas Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024