Tree removal in Downers Grove, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Downers Grove that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 17, 2025; July 24, 2025; and June 8, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 20,360 households live in Downers Grove. About six 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 1974.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 3 miles from Downers Grove, averages 144 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 64 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in DuPage County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and City of Naperville; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024