Tree removal in White Oak, TX

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near White Oak that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 13, 2018; May 28, 2017; and May 11, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,060 households live in White Oak. About seven 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 1981.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from White Oak, averages 38 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Gregg County, among them Southwestern Electric Power Co and Rusk County Electric Coop, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024