Tree removal in Lancaster, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Lancaster that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 12, 2021 and October 20, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, measured.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 14,650 households live in Lancaster. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1990.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Lancaster, averages 40 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 3 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 Dallas County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Texas-New Mexico Power Co; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024