Tree removal in Arab, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 12 storm reports near Arab that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 10, 2023; August 7, 2023; and July 18, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 3,300 households live in Arab. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1979.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 10 miles from Arab, averages 52 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 7 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 8 electric utilities with service territory in Marshall County, among them Alabama Power Co and Albertville Municipal Utilities Board; the county page names the other 6.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024