Tree removal in Mount Olive, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Mount Olive that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated July 17, 2025. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 910 households live in Mount Olive. 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 1949.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from Mount Olive, averages 100 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 33 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 Macoupin County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Illinois Rural Electric Coop; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024