Tree removal in Lake Cherokee, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Lake Cherokee that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 8, 2024 and June 15, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,500 households live in Lake Cherokee. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1994.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Lake Cherokee, averages 29 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Rusk County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Southwestern Electric Power Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024