Tree removal in Hooks, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Hooks that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 13, 2025; July 16, 2023; and March 27, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 90 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 960 households live in Hooks. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1971.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Hooks, averages 46 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 3 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 Bowie County, among them Southwestern Electric Power Co and Bowie-Cass Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024