Tree removal in Cottondale, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Cottondale that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 18, 2024; August 3, 2023; and June 19, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,310 households live in Cottondale. About half the homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1982.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Cottondale, averages 47 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 5 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 Tuscaloosa County, among them Alabama Power Co and Black Warrior Elec Member Corp.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024