Tree removal in Tyler, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Tyler that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated October 4, 2023; September 24, 2023; and April 20, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 100 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 37,730 households live in Tyler. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1978.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Tyler, averages 29 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 2 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Smith County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Southwestern Electric Power Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024