Tree removal in St. Jacob, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near St. Jacob that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 16, 2025; April 29, 2024; and February 22, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 530 households live in St. Jacob. About nine in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1995.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 14 miles from St. Jacob, averages 93 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 27 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 5 electric utilities with service territory in Madison County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and City of Highland; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024