Tree removal in Shell Knob, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 10 storm reports near Shell Knob that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 16, 2024; January 11, 2024; and July 30, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 690 households live in Shell Knob. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1993.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 16 miles from Shell Knob, averages 113 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 36 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Barry County, among them Empire District Electric Co and Barry Electric Coop; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024