Tree removal in Vandergrift, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Vandergrift that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 7, 2022 and August 12, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,180 households live in Vandergrift. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about half 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 6 miles from Vandergrift, averages 140 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 56 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