Tree removal in Alma, AR

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Alma that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 19, 2025; July 14, 2023; and November 14, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,010 households live in Alma. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1996. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Alma, averages 87 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 20 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Crawford County, among them Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co and Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024