Tree removal in Anniston, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Anniston that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 17, 2025; April 10, 2025; and August 11, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 9,440 households live in Anniston. About three quarters of the homes are detached houses and about six in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1966.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Anniston, averages 52 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 6 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 Calhoun 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