Tree removal in Godfrey, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Godfrey that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 16, 2025; May 27, 2021; and June 28, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 7,600 households live in Godfrey. About eight 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 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Godfrey, 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