Tree removal in Bridgeport, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Bridgeport that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 26, 2023; June 28, 2018; and July 6, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,130 households live in Bridgeport. About seven 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 1967.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Bridgeport, averages 79 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 13 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 3 electric utilities with service territory in Jackson County, among them City of Scottsboro and North Alabama Electric Coop; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024