Tree removal in East Dubuque, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near East Dubuque that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 24, 2023 and July 11, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 710 households live in East Dubuque. 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 1960.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from East Dubuque, averages 133 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 65 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 Jo Daviess County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and Jo-Carroll Energy, Inc; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024