Tree removal in Payson, AZ

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Payson that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated November 19, 2023; September 1, 2019; and July 15, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 68 mph, measured.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 7,820 households live in Payson. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1992.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Payson, averages 125 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 19 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Gila County, among them Arizona Public Service Co and Navopache Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024