Tree removal in Lansing, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Lansing that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 15, 2024; July 28, 2023; and July 5, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 90 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 11,150 households live in Lansing. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1966.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Lansing, averages 126 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 53 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Cook County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and Village of Winnetka.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024