Tree removal in Newark, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Newark that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 28, 2023; June 26, 2020; and October 14, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 420 households live in Newark. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1961.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from Newark, averages 127 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 55 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Kendall County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Commonwealth Edison Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024