Tree removal in Windber, PA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Windber that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 5, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 49 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,790 households live in Windber. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten 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 6 miles from Windber, averages 127 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 54 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 Somerset County, among them FirstEnergy Pennsylvania Electric Co and Bedford Rural Elec Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024