Tree removal in Sparta, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Sparta that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 30, 2023; April 28, 2020; and October 21, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 960 households live in Sparta. About eight 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 1995.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Sparta, averages 135 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 56 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 Christian County, among them Empire District Electric Co and City of Nixa; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024