Tree removal in Arp, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Arp that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 12, 2025; March 17, 2021; and June 10, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 330 households live in Arp. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1968.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 15 miles from Arp, averages 41 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 3 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Smith County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Southwestern Electric Power Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024