Tree removal in Lake Lotawana, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Lake Lotawana that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 5, 2020; June 4, 2020; and June 26, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 880 households live in Lake Lotawana. Almost all the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1974.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Lake Lotawana, averages 114 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 46 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