Tree removal in Port Byron, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Port Byron that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 14, 2024; June 21, 2022; and June 4, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 780 households live in Port Byron. 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 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Port Byron, averages 126 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 57 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 one electric utility with service territory in Rock Island County: MidAmerican Energy Co.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024