Tree removal in Alvord, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Alvord that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 5, 2023 and March 18, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 460 households live in Alvord. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1982.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Alvord, averages 73 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 15 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 Wise County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and City of Bridgeport; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024