Lake County, Illinois
Tree removal in Waukegan, IL
Tree removal in Waukegan. The National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports with trees in them near Waukegan from 2016 through 2025, the latest on July 14, 2024. About half the homes in Waukegan are detached houses.
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What is particular to Waukegan
Storm reports near Waukegan
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Waukegan that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 14, 2024; August 3, 2022; and February 20, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 31,410 households live in Waukegan. About half the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1967.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Waukegan, averages 133 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 58 at or below 20°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists one electric utility with service territory in Lake County: Commonwealth Edison Co.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Illinois state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the Illinois Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Lake County.
Where Waukegan is
Nearby in Lake County
- Park City
- Gurnee
- North Chicago
- Beach Park 3 storm reports with trees
- Green Oaks
- Gages Lake
- Knollwood
- Lake Bluff 1 storm report with trees
- Grandwood Park
- Wadsworth 1 storm report with trees
- Zion 1 storm report with trees
- Third Lake