Tree removal in High Ridge, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near High Ridge that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2025; June 30, 2023; and June 19, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,690 households live in High Ridge. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1976.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 15 miles from High Ridge, averages 105 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 33 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