Tree removal in Bunker Hill, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Bunker Hill that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2025; December 10, 2021; and July 14, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 520 households live in Bunker Hill. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1962.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 16 miles from Bunker Hill, averages 85 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 31 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