Tree removal in Pierce City, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Pierce City that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 29, 2025; May 15, 2022; and September 20, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 500 households live in Pierce City. 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 1967.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Pierce City, averages 89 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 28 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