Bourbon County, Kansas
Tree removal in Fort Scott, KS
Tree removal in Fort Scott. The National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports with trees in them near Fort Scott from 2016 through 2025, the latest on July 11, 2025. About eight in ten homes in Fort Scott are detached houses.
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What is particular to Fort Scott
Storm reports near Fort Scott
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near Fort Scott that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 11, 2025; July 14, 2023; and August 3, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 3,340 households live in Fort Scott. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1951.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Fort Scott, averages 101 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 32 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 4 electric utilities with service territory in Bourbon County, among them Evergy Kansas South, Inc and Evergy Metro; the county page names the other 2.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Kansas state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the Kansas Insurance Department.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Bourbon County.