Macon County, Missouri
Tree removal in La Plata, MO
Tree removal in La Plata. The National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports with trees in them near La Plata from 2016 through 2025, the latest on June 3, 2025. About seven in ten homes in La Plata are detached houses.
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What is particular to La Plata
Storm reports near La Plata
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near La Plata that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 3, 2025; June 17, 2022; and June 28, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 530 households live in La Plata. About seven 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 1963.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from La Plata, averages 125 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 54 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Macon County, among them Union Electric Co and City of La Plata; the county page names the other 3.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Missouri state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the Missouri Department of Commerce and Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Macon County.