Tree removal in Sarcoxie, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 11 storm reports near Sarcoxie that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 19, 2025; April 20, 2025; and August 13, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 480 households live in Sarcoxie. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1971.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Sarcoxie, averages 93 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 27 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 Jasper County, among them Empire District Electric Co and Barton County Elec Coop, Inc; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024