Tree removal in Aurora, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 15 storm reports near Aurora that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 16, 2025; July 24, 2025; and July 16, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 60,400 households live in Aurora. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1986.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Aurora, averages 134 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 59 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Kane County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and City of Batavia; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024