Flagpole installation inBuffalo, NY

Flagpoles in Buffalo

Western New York's commercial centre, at the head of the Niagara River and the eastern end of Lake Erie, with offices, hospitals, manufacturing and a working port behind it. We cover Buffalo and the Erie County area, including downtown and the central business district, Allentown, the Elmwood Village, Larkinville, the Niagara Street corridor, the Lake Erie waterfront and the international crossing to Fort Erie.

Wind here. Buffalo sits in a flat, lake-exposed area, which works out to roughly 115 mph under the code your town uses. That figure decides how wide and how thick the pole has to be, so we check it against your address before we quote. Buffalo replaced zoning that had stood since 1953 with the Green Code, in force since 2017, so the setback and frontage rules a pole has to sit inside are the new ones and we read them before a hole is marked. The mapped figure is the same 115 mph as every other upstate town, and it is the least interesting number on the job. The city lies flat on the Erie lake plain, on heavy lake-bed clay, and waterfront and Niagara Street sites have nothing at all upwind of them, so those are sized as open exposure. Winter is the rest of it: about ninety-five inches in an average winter, and most of that arrives on a handful of days, the way Snowvember did in 2014. A flag left flying through one of those comes down a great deal heavier than it went up, and the hardware is specified to take that.

Most of the people who call us from Buffalo are manufacturers and distribution buildings, hotels and downtown office frontage, hospital and clinic campuses, city and county facilities, schools and parish buildings, veterans posts and waterfront properties.