Tree removal in Kearney, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Kearney that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 11, 2025; May 20, 2025; and July 1, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,250 households live in Kearney. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2001.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Kearney, averages 128 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 57 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 Clay 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