Tree removal in Brownsville, LA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Brownsville that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated March 28, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,770 households live in Brownsville. About half the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1985.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Brownsville, averages 33 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 2 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Ouachita Parish, among them Entergy Louisiana LLC and Claiborne Electric Coop, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024