Tree removal in Festus, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Festus that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 26, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,920 households live in Festus. About seven 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 1981.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Festus, averages 105 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 Jefferson 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