Tree removal in West, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near West that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated August 17, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 55 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 940 households live in West. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1959.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 15 miles from West, averages 37 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in McLennan County, among them Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC and Texas-New Mexico Power Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024