Tree removal in Rochester, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Rochester that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 29, 2023; June 5, 2019; and May 29, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,380 households live in Rochester. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and almost all the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1985.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Rochester, averages 114 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 46 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