Tree removal in Steamboat Springs, CO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Steamboat Springs that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 23, 2016. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 6,030 households live in Steamboat Springs. About three in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1993. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Steamboat Springs, averages 233 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 133 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Routt County, among them Public Service Co of Colorado and Mountain Parks Electric, Inc; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024