Tree removal in Maroa, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Maroa that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 19, 2025; April 8, 2020; and December 1, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 100 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 660 households live in Maroa. About eight 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 1965.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from Maroa, 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