Tree removal in Independence, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Independence that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 25, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, measured.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 50,930 households live in Independence. 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 1967.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Independence, 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