Tree removal in Albers, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Albers that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 2, 2025 and May 19, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 550 households live in Albers. Almost all the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1978.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from Albers, averages 93 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 27 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 7 electric utilities with service territory in Clinton County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and City of Breese; the county page names the other 5.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024