Tree removal in Independence, LA

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Independence that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 24, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 720 households live in Independence. About eight 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 1974.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Independence, averages 35 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 1 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 Tangipahoa Parish, among them Entergy Louisiana LLC and Dixie Electric Membership Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024