Tree removal in Hampshire, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Hampshire that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 26, 2025; March 14, 2025; and July 5, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,600 households live in Hampshire. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 2003.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Hampshire, averages 147 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 70 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