Tree removal in Whetstone, AZ

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Whetstone that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated September 15, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,330 households live in Whetstone. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1995.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Whetstone, averages 40 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Cochise County, among them Arizona Public Service Co and Tucson Electric Power Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024