Tree removal in Walkerton, IN

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Walkerton that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated May 20, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 740 households live in Walkerton. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the 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 12 miles from Walkerton, averages 132 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 54 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 8 electric utilities with service territory in St. Joseph County, among them Indiana Michigan Power Co and Northern Indiana Pub Serv Co; the county page names the other 6.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024