Tree removal in West Frankfort, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 7 storm reports near West Frankfort that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated October 19, 2025; May 26, 2024; and July 2, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 96 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,060 households live in West Frankfort. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about two thirds 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 9 miles from West Frankfort, averages 93 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 26 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 Franklin County, among them Ameren Illinois Company and Egyptian Electric Coop Assn; the county page names the other 3.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024