Tree removal in Edwardsville, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Edwardsville that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated June 28, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 64 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 9,640 households live in Edwardsville. 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 1984.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Edwardsville, 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 Madison County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and City of Highland; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024