Storm damage cleanup for Broken Arrow, in the right order.
When wind or ice gets into a tree, the job changes. The wood is loaded, it is touching things it should not touch, and it has to come apart carefully. Storm calls reach us around the clock, and the dangerous part of the list gets worked first.
What this area's weather does to trees
The Tulsa metro earned its respect for wind the hard way. In June 2023, a derecho pushed winds near 100 miles per hour through the metro, left more than 200,000 without power, and did enough damage to draw three separate tornado surveys on top of the straight-line wind. Every year is not that year, but the pattern holds: damaging wind peaks April through June, and some winters add an ice storm that loads every limb in town at once.
Broken Arrow's older neighborhoods sit under exactly the trees that feel it most: big, mature canopies with long limbs over roofs and driveways. Most of them ride out most storms. The ones that do not are why this page exists.
A tree is on the house. What now?
Call (918) 553-5645 and say that sentence; nothing on the schedule outranks it. Then keep everyone out of the rooms under the tree and out of the yard beneath it. Wood pinned against shingles is still under load in directions you cannot see, and it can shift without warning. Leave it exactly as it sits, take photos from a safe distance for your insurance file, and let the crew take it apart in the order that keeps the load under control.
One caution that outranks all the others: if any power line is down or tangled in the damage, treat it as live and stay away until the utility has dealt with it. Wet wood carries current. No limb is worth that.
What counts as go-now, and what can wait for daylight
Go-now: anything touching a house, garage, or vehicle; a tree across a driveway or the only way out; a freshly leaning tree with lifted soil at its base; a broken limb hanging over a spot where people walk. Those calls get whichever crew can move first, whatever the clock says.
Can wait: a trunk already down in the middle of the yard, touching nothing, is done moving. Booking that as a scheduled cleanup costs less than midnight work, and we will say so on the phone rather than send a truck you do not need. You get a real window for it, usually within days after a storm, and the yard comes back the same visit.
How storm work is priced
The same way everything else here is priced: a figure and an arrival window before the work starts, even when the window is "now." A storm week is not the week for pricing surprises. Storm weeks also pull traveling crews through the metro; whoever you end up hiring, get the price before the saws start.
After the emergency, the rest of the tree
Half a storm job is what is still standing: the other side of a split fork, a trunk that lost its top, a canopy that gave up a third of itself. Those get looked at once the urgent wood is down. Some can be trimmed back into shape over time. Many are removals now, better done on a calm day at a scheduled price. And the stump can be ground out on the same series of visits, so the storm stops being a yard feature.
What storm callers ask first
Do you answer storm calls at night?
Yes. The number (918) 553-5645 gets picked up around the clock when weather has come through. Say what the tree is touching; that is what sets the order of the night's list.
Should the tree come off the roof before the tarp goes on?
Yes, in that order. The tarp keeps the water out, but nobody can seal a roof that still has a trunk on it. We lift the wood off carefully, and a roofer takes it from there. Photograph everything first for the insurance file.
Is spring really the risky season here?
April through June is the peak for damaging wind in this part of Oklahoma, and some winters bring ice that loads every limb at once. The June 2023 derecho, with winds near 100 mph, is the local benchmark for how bad a bad week can get.
Storm's over. Get the cleanup on the books.
Urgent or not, the next step is the same phone call, and it ends with a price and a time.