Tree removal in Westlake, OH

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Westlake that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 21, 2021; November 15, 2020; and June 10, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 14,570 households live in Westlake. About six 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 1983.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Westlake, averages 111 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 38 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 Cuyahoga County, among them Cleveland Electric Illum Co and Ohio Edison Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024