Tree removal in Mount Vernon, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Mount Vernon that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 30, 2023; July 31, 2021; and June 4, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,720 households live in Mount Vernon. About eight 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 1978.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Mount Vernon, averages 111 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 38 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Lawrence County, among them Empire District Electric Co and City of Monett; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024