The Northeastern Ice Storm 1998: A Forest Damage Assessment

This is a summary in booklet form, of the damage in the Northeastern forests caused by the 1998 ice storm.

The ice storm of January 1998 affected 17 million acres of forestland in northern New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, including parts of the Green Mountain National Forest and the White Mountain National Forest.  Portions of eastern Canada were also impacted, especially Quebec.  The weight of accumulated ice caused trees to snap off or bend over to the ground.  Large branches broke within crowns and debris littered the landscape.  Meteorologists have called the ice storm a 100-year event, and many compare it to the hurricane of 1938 with respect to the region's forests.