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Storm Damage Tree Removal in Norman, OK
Help finding a local company for the tree the storm put on your roof.
Storm damage tree removal in Norman, OK: trees on houses, hangers over driveways, leaners with lifted roots. This site hands the request to one Norman-area tree company that runs on its own, and that company prices emergency tree removal out loud before any saw starts.
Norman keeps getting tested
This city does not get to skip storm seasons. An EF1 tornado tracked through Norman in April 2024. That November, tornadoes hit the metro again — at night. And the October 2020 ice storm remains the benchmark: a glaze that landed on trees still in leaf and broke canopies across the entire metro at once. Around here, storm damage is not a possibility you insure against and forget. It is a season on the calendar.
Tree work here plans for it the same way. Knowing which damage is urgent and which can sit is most of that planning.
The first hour
Before anyone touches a saw, three rules. First: if any limb is on a power line — including the drop that feeds your own meter — that is the utility’s problem before it is anyone else’s. Stay back and report it. Second: bent and pinned limbs store violent energy. A loaded limb can release like a spring when cut, which is why storm work injures so many chainsaw owners in the days after the wind dies. Third: photograph everything before cleanup starts. Your insurance adjuster wants to see the tree on the house, not a clean lawn and an invoice.
Then call and leave a message with your address and what happened, or send the form. The list below sorts a tonight problem from a this-week problem.
Call now, or let it wait
Call now
- A tree or limb is on the house, garage, or a vehicle.
- A broken limb hangs over a door, driveway, or anywhere kids play.
- A whole tree leans with its root plate lifted out of the ground.
- Anything is within reach of a power line — utility first, then us.
It can wait
- Small branches scattered on the lawn.
- Broken interior twigs and deadwood high in the crown.
- A tree that shed a limb over open ground, with nothing underneath.
- Anything you are tempted to ladder-and-chainsaw yourself. Please wait.
Emergency pricing, said out loud
Emergency work can run to $5,000, the honest ceiling for the hardest tree-through-roof jobs with a crane on the invoice. Most storm calls cost far less, and a typical removal in calm conditions averages about $750. Either way, the rule does not change: the local company names its number before work starts. Storm victims get quoted, not harvested.
After the urgent piece is done, the rest of the cleanup can usually wait for a calm-season price. A fair quote splits the job that way and says which half is which. A trunk that is still standing and still unsafe once the wind has gone becomes an ordinary Norman removal, priced on the usual ranges, rather than a storm call.
Watch the sky
The National Weather Service forecast office that covers the whole Oklahoma City metro sits right here in Norman. Their forecasts, watches, and warnings at weather.gov/oun are the straightest weather information you can get, straight from the people who issue it. For the slow-motion version of storm damage — what glaze ice actually does to a canopy and how to get ahead of it — read the ice storm guide.
Wires belong to the utility
A tree on a power line is not a tree job yet. Where OG&E supplies the power, its vegetation guidelines note that state and federal safety rules require anyone working within 10 feet of a high-voltage line to have proper training and certification. A homeowner with a pole saw does not have that, and tree work arranged through this site stays out of that zone. Report the line to your electric provider, keep well back, and let the tree company quote the rest once the wire is safe.
The same order of work holds outside the city limits. A split tree in Moore or storm cleanup across the river in Newcastle gets sorted the same way: people and wires first, then the urgent piece, then the rest.
Storm damage questions
Should I cut down a hanging limb myself?
Not if it is bent, pinned or still attached high in the tree. Limbs like that hold tension that lets go without warning. Tape or rope the area off, keep everyone out from under it, and leave the cutting to the tree company.
What should I say when I call about storm damage?
Give the address, where the tree or limb is resting, what it is touching, and whether a truck can reach it. Photos taken before any cleanup help the tree company quote the job and help your insurance adjuster too.
If it’s on the house, call now.
Stay clear of it, then call and leave a message with your address and what happened, or send the form. The number comes before the work starts.