Tree removal in Pekin, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 20 storm reports near Pekin that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 18, 2025; March 14, 2025; and June 25, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 13,530 households live in Pekin. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1962.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from 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