Tree removal in Macon, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Macon that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 29, 2023 and May 17, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 440 households live in Macon. 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 1959.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Macon, averages 110 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 40 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 Macon County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Corn Belt Energy Corporation; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024