Tree removal in Benson, AZ

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Benson that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 11, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,390 households live in Benson. About four 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 1986.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Benson, averages 93 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 14 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Cochise County, among them Arizona Public Service Co and Tucson Electric Power Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024