Tree removal in Downs, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Downs that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated April 2, 2025; October 24, 2021; and July 11, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 550 households live in Downs. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten 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 11 miles from Downs, averages 133 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 57 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 McLean County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Corn Belt Energy Corporation; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024