Tree removal in New London, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near New London that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 18, 2019 and October 31, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 450 households live in New London. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1968.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from New London, averages 41 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 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