Tree removal in Blue Summit, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near Blue Summit that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 16, 2025; June 26, 2025; and June 3, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 320 households live in Blue Summit. About a third of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1982. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Blue Summit, averages 113 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 43 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 Jackson County, among them Evergy Metro and Evergy Missouri West; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024