Tree removal in Sterling, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Sterling that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 21, 2024; July 5, 2022; and May 26, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 6,660 households live in Sterling. About seven in ten homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1957.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Sterling, averages 138 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 62 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 Whiteside County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and City of Albany; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024