Tree removal in West Kittanning, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near West Kittanning that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 25, 2023; March 31, 2022; and August 12, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 68 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 610 households live in West Kittanning. About nine 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 1949.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from West Kittanning, averages 142 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 Armstrong County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Central Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024