Tree removal in Mesquite, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Mesquite that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 30, 2025; March 9, 2019; and July 5, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 50,360 households live in Mesquite. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about six 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 16 miles from Mesquite, 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