How does an american persimmon hold up in a storm?
Persimmon is small-diameter with genuinely hard, dense, ebony-family wood and a deep taproot, so it is not one of the species that fills a phone after an Indiana ice storm. When one does fail it is typically a whole leaning trunk going over on a saturated clay edge, not the limb tearouts you see on maple and Callery pear.
What pruning can and can't prevent
Dormant season, and train to a single leader early — persimmon naturally grows a crooked, irregular, often leaning trunk that is far easier to correct at 15 ft than at 40. The trap is assuming a cut solves it: persimmon sprouts vigorously from the stump and from lateral roots, so an untreated removal comes back as a thicket rather than a stump.
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