Tree removal in Bear Creek, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Bear Creek that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 25, 2025; February 15, 2025; and July 12, 2020. 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 Bear Creek. About six in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1977.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Bear Creek, averages 57 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 10 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 Marion County, among them Alabama Power Co and Tombigbee Electric Coop, Inc.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024