Tree removal in Yorkshire, NY

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Yorkshire that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 15, 2024; July 20, 2023; and April 1, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 59 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 560 households live in Yorkshire. About a quarter of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1986. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from Yorkshire, averages 169 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 80 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 Cattaraugus County, among them New York State Elec & Gas Corp and Niagara Mohawk Power Corp.; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024