Houston County, Alabama
Tree removal in Cottonwood, AL
Tree removal in Cottonwood. The National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports with trees in them near Cottonwood from 2016 through 2025, the latest on August 18, 2024. About two thirds of the homes in Cottonwood are detached houses.
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What is particular to Cottonwood
Storm reports near Cottonwood
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 9 storm reports near Cottonwood that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 18, 2024; July 8, 2023; and June 12, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.
Source: NOAA Storm Events
Homes and who decides
About 510 households live in Cottonwood. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about two thirds of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1972.
Source: Census ACS 2019–2023
Freezing nights
The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 17 miles from Cottonwood, averages 22 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F.
Source: NOAA Climate Normals
If a tree is on a line
Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Houston County, among them Alabama Power Co and City of Dothan; the county page names the other one.
Source: EIA-861, 2024
Tree down, or about to come down?
Before work starts
We did not find a Alabama state license for tree work, so ask any company for proof of liability insurance and workers’ compensation.
Insurance complaints go to the Alabama Department of Insurance.
Storm records, FEMA ratings and electric utilities for the whole county: Houston County.