Tree removal in Riverton, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near Riverton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 15, 2024; April 18, 2024; and March 31, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,580 households live in Riverton. About eight 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 1973.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Riverton, averages 111 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 41 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 7 electric utilities with service territory in Sangamon County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and City of Springfield; the county page names the other 5.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024