Tree removal in Kincaid, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Kincaid that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 14, 2024 and July 21, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 590 households live in Kincaid. 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 1955.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 12 miles from Kincaid, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 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 Christian County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Rural Electric Conven Coop; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024