Tree removal in Wichita, KS

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 20 storm reports near Wichita that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 21, 2025; July 18, 2025; and June 17, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 157,650 households live in Wichita. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1974.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Wichita, averages 103 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Sedgwick County, among them Evergy Kansas South, Inc and Butler Rural El Coop Assn, Inc; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024