Tree removal in Polo, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Polo that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 14, 2025; June 16, 2024; and July 28, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,000 households live in Polo. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1953.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 4 miles from Polo, averages 138 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 66 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Ogle County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and Rochelle Municipal Utilities.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024