Tree removal in Van Buren, AR

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Van Buren that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 7, 2025; June 6, 2025; and July 14, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 8,780 households live in Van Buren. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1989.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Van Buren, averages 63 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 9 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 Crawford County, among them Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co and Arkansas Valley Elec Coop Corp; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024