Kansas City, Mo. ? The boulevards and parkways that lead to this city’s many fountains were once lined with leafy, mature trees. Weeks after the city’s worst ice storm, many trees are gnarled and limbless.

The storm that swept across Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri in late January temporarily knocked out power to about a million homes, caused more than $50 million in damage and led to federal disaster declarations in 123 counties.

An inch of ice on nearly every surface also damaged about two-thirds of the trees in a 40-mile wide swath across the three states, the Federal Emergency Management Agency said.

Nobody knows how many trees were damaged, but officials have estimated that roughly 80 percent of Kansas City-area trees suffered. Enough branches and trunks have been removed from the city to fill 79,000-seat Arrowhead Stadium to the rim, officials here said.

Ice 2 inches thick snapped all the branches of a 70-foot pin oak in Sean Reilly’s lawn in Overland Park. The tree had to be removed, but he’s trying keep positive about the sunlight now hitting his front yard.

The damage to Kansas trees has turned out to be more extensive than officials originally thought, said Eric Berg, an urban and community forestry coordinator with the Kansas Forest Service. Some 80 percent of trees along streets were damaged in southeast Kansas, he said.

The oaks, ashes and hard maples that thrived in eastern Kansas before European settlers arrived were virtually unharmed by the ice, Berg said. Trees in forests can lean on each other for support, a luxury not available to the well-spaced trees of cities, he said.

In Missouri, the hardest hit were the metropolitan areas, especially eastern and southern Kansas City, said Butch DuCote, FEMA’s spokesman in Kansas City.

Tree parts were piled as high as 10 feet in front of some Kansas City houses after the storm. Nearly 17,000 Missourians applied for and received about $2.2 million in federal disaster housing relief, DuCote said. About 8,000 Kansans applied for federal disaster relief, receiving more than $1.5 million, said Joe Klocek, with FEMA’s effort in Emporia, Kan.