Tree removal in St. Charles, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 8 storm reports near St. Charles that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 26, 2025; March 14, 2025; and July 15, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 75 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 13,170 households live in St. Charles. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten 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 3 miles from St. Charles, averages 134 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 60 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