Jefferson County, Illinois
Tree removal in Mount Vernon, IL
Tree removal in Mount Vernon. The National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports with trees in them near Mount Vernon from 2016 through 2025, the latest on May 8, 2024. About seven in ten homes in Mount Vernon are detached houses.
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What is particular to Mount Vernon
Storm reports near Mount Vernon
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Mount Vernon that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 8, 2024; May 4, 2024; and March 14, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 85 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 6,200 households live in Mount Vernon. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1967.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Mount Vernon, averages 108 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 37 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Jefferson County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Tri-County Electric Coop, Inc (IL); the county page names the other one.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Illinois state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the Illinois Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Jefferson County.