Tree removal in Brighton, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Brighton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 14, 2024; May 27, 2021; and July 23, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 850 households live in Brighton. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1973.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Brighton, averages 118 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 42 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Macoupin County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Illinois Rural Electric Coop; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024