Tree removal in Gridley, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Gridley that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 11, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 540 households live in Gridley. 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 1970.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Gridley, averages 127 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 52 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in McLean County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Corn Belt Energy Corporation; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024