Tree removal in West Lafayette, IN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near West Lafayette that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 26, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 14,530 households live in West Lafayette. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about three in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1990. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from West Lafayette, averages 116 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 44 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 Tippecanoe County, among them Duke Energy Indiana, LLC and Carroll-White REMC; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024