Tree removal in DeSoto, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near DeSoto that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 8, 2025 and March 4, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 20,980 households live in DeSoto. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1993.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from DeSoto, averages 27 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Dallas County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Texas-New Mexico Power Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024