Tree removal in La Porte, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near La Porte that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 30, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 61 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 13,160 households live in La Porte. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1983.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from La Porte, averages 9 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