Tree removal in Gainesville, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Gainesville that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated September 23, 2025 and May 19, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 6,820 households live in Gainesville. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1973.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Gainesville, averages 50 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 Cooke 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