Tree removal in Brilliant, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Brilliant that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 6, 2023; August 5, 2023; and March 28, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 560 households live in Brilliant. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about seven in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1969.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Brilliant, averages 81 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 15 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