Tree removal in Forrest, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Forrest that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated December 28, 2025; July 4, 2022; and August 10, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 450 households live in Forrest. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1956.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Forrest, averages 134 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Livingston County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Commonwealth Edison Co; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024