Tree removal in Gilberts, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Gilberts that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 29, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,830 households live in Gilberts. About seven 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 2004.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Gilberts, averages 139 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 63 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 Kane County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and City of Batavia; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024