Tree removal in Villa Ridge, MO

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Villa Ridge that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 14, 2025; July 16, 2023; and June 14, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,010 households live in Villa Ridge. About nine 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 1982.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Villa Ridge, averages 101 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 32 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 Franklin County, among them Union Electric Co and City of Sullivan; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024