Tree removal in West Salem, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near West Salem that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 24, 2025 and August 23, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 600 households live in West Salem. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1971.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from West Salem, averages 133 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 57 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Wayne County, among them Ohio Edison Co and Ohio Power Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024