Tree removal in Ben Wheeler, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Ben Wheeler that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 3, 2024; May 28, 2024; and June 16, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 460 households live in Ben Wheeler. 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 2002.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 18 miles from Ben Wheeler, averages 52 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 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 Van Zandt County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Southwestern Electric Power Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024