Tree removal in Oreana, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Oreana that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 29, 2023; August 29, 2022; and August 2, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 480 households live in Oreana. 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 1966.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Oreana, averages 113 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 43 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Macon County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Corn Belt Energy Corporation; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024