Tree removal in Big Sandy, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Big Sandy that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 15, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 480 households live in Big Sandy. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1979. 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 12 miles from Big Sandy, averages 54 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Upshur County, among them Southwestern Electric Power Co and Upshur Rural Elec Coop Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024