Tree Service in Nixa, MO

Most of the Tree Service in Nixa that homeowners ask us about involves trees that are about as old as their subdivision. The city counted 276 residents in 1910, jumped more than 150 percent in the 2000 census, and reached 23,257 people by 2020. The maples, pears and oaks planted along those new streets twenty years ago are now big enough to rub gutters, shade out lawns and reach the service wire. That is the right age to prune them, not the age to wait.

A city with its own power company

Nixa runs its own electric utility, which means the crews trimming the lines are city crews, not City Utilities of Springfield. A Nixa Utilities spokesman told KY3 in 2023 that crews aim to revisit trimmed areas every three to five years and come out when a property owner calls about trees in the lines. During storm work they clear the line and leave the cut material where it falls, because time spent hauling is time not spent restoring power. That leaves the owner with the wood, and with any limbs that are close to, but not yet on, the wire. We take care of that part: pruning yard trees back from the drop to the house, and cleaning up after utility crews have opened the line.

The April 2025 storm went right through town

Nixa took one of the hardest hits in the region on April 29, 2025. The National Weather Service logged an 87 mph gust in a public report from Nixa that morning, and an EF-0 tornado touched down near Eaglecrest Street about 9:30 a.m., traveling half a mile northeast across Highway 160. Damage like that tends to show up later as hangers, limbs cracked but still in the canopy, and trees with lifted root plates that still look upright. If your yard went through that storm and nobody has looked up into the crown since, it is worth an inspection.

Where the brush goes

Nixa does not run curbside brush pickup; after the July 2023 storms the city said a pickup option was not available. Residents use the Nixa Recycling Center at 1093 Eaglecrest Street, which during that cleanup accepted logs and limbs over four inches thick if cut to six feet or shorter. When we do the work, we chip the small material and haul the wood unless you want to keep it for the fire pit.

Common Nixa requests

• Raising low limbs over sidewalks and driveways in newer subdivisions
• Thinning fast-growing maples before they get heavy over the roof
• Removing storm-split Bradford pears
• Clearing branches off the service drop after a Nixa Utilities disconnect
• Stump grinding so a front yard can be regraded or replanted
• Hazard checks on trees that leaned after the 2025 windstorm

Book a walk-through

Call (417) 374-2037 or use the form. Tell us your street and which trees worry you. We look at each one, explain what we would cut and why, and send a written estimate. Get a free estimate