Tree removal in South Elgin, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near South Elgin that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 20, 2024; July 5, 2022; and August 11, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 69 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 8,450 households live in South Elgin. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1996.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from South Elgin, averages 139 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 63 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in Kane County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and City of Batavia; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024