Tree removal in Leland, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Leland that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 11, 2021; August 10, 2020; and May 14, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 440 households live in Leland. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1946.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Leland, averages 148 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 68 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in LaSalle County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Commonwealth Edison Co; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024