Tree removal in Wheeling, IL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Wheeling that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 25, 2024 and August 29, 2022. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 15,300 households live in Wheeling. About three 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 1980. With most homes attached or in apartment buildings, many trees here stand on shared, association or public land, and whoever owns that land arranges the work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 1 mile from Wheeling, averages 122 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 50 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 2 electric utilities with service territory in Cook County, among them Commonwealth Edison Co and Village of Winnetka.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024