Tree removal in Lake Bluff, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Lake Bluff that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 21, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 2,170 households live in Lake Bluff. About nine 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 1977.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Lake Bluff, averages 133 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 58 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 one electric utility with service territory in Lake County: Commonwealth Edison Co.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024