Tree removal in Fairmont City, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Fairmont City 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 880 households live in Fairmont City. About nine 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 1954.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Fairmont City, averages 98 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 29 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 9 electric utilities with service territory in St. Clair County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and City of Highland; the county page names the other 7.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024