Tree removal in Kilgore, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 16 storm reports near Kilgore that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated October 28, 2025; May 30, 2024; and May 21, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 100 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,460 households live in Kilgore. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1972.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Kilgore, averages 35 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Gregg County, among them Southwestern Electric Power Co and Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024