Tree removal in Rome, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Rome that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated August 10, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 660 households live in Rome. Almost all the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1960.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Rome, averages 121 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 45 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 Peoria County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Spoon River Electric Coop, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024