Tree removal in Altoona, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Altoona that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated November 25, 2025; August 6, 2023; and June 22, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 460 households live in Altoona. About six 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 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Altoona, averages 65 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 11 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 Etowah County, among them Alabama Power Co and Cherokee Electric Coop; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024