Tree removal in Mount Carroll, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Mount Carroll that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 18, 2025; July 10, 2025; and July 15, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 85 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 650 households live in Mount Carroll. About eight 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 1950.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Mount Carroll, averages 155 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 75 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 Carroll County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and Jo-Carroll Energy, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024