Tree removal in Katy, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Katy that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2024; August 10, 2022; and May 28, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 7,490 households live in Katy. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2003.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 16 miles from Katy, averages 10 nights a year with a low at or below 32°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 Harris County, among them CenterPoint Energy and Entergy Texas Inc.; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024