Tree removal in Murphy, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Murphy that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 28, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 72 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 5,910 households live in Murphy. Almost all the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2005.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Murphy, averages 44 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 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 7 electric utilities with service territory in Collin County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Texas-New Mexico Power Co; the county page names the other 5.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024