Tree removal in Whitaker, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Whitaker that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 17, 2024 and June 4, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 540 households live in Whitaker. About nine 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 1 mile from Whitaker, averages 92 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 28 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Allegheny County, among them Duquesne Light Co and FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024