Tree removal in Bismarck, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Bismarck that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 12, 2023; April 28, 2020; and May 31, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, measured.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 600 households live in Bismarck. About eight 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 1971.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Bismarck, averages 104 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 34 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 St. Francois County, among them Union Electric Co and Citizens Electric Corporation; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024