Tree removal in North Pekin, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near North Pekin that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 7, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 660 households live in North Pekin. Almost all the homes are detached houses and about nine 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 5 miles from North Pekin, averages 118 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 48 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 Tazewell County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Corn Belt Energy Corporation; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024