Tree removal in Watsontown, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Watsontown that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 22, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 830 households live in Watsontown. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1952.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Watsontown, averages 133 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 48 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 Northumberland County, among them Citizens Electric Co and PPL Electric Utilities Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024