Hancock County, Illinois
Tree removal in Carthage, IL
Tree removal in Carthage. The National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports with trees in them near Carthage from 2016 through 2025, the latest on March 14, 2025. About three quarters of the homes in Carthage are detached houses.
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What is particular to Carthage
Storm reports near Carthage
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Carthage that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 14, 2025; June 29, 2023; and June 25, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 1,100 households live in Carthage. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1956.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Carthage, averages 124 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 51 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 4 electric utilities with service territory in Hancock County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Adams Electric Coop; the county page names the other 2.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Illinois state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the Illinois Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Hancock County.