Tree removal in Strafford, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Strafford that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 15, 2024 and May 21, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 960 households live in Strafford. 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 1993.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Strafford, averages 95 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 31 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 Greene County, among them Empire District Electric Co and City Utilities of Springfield; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024