Tree removal in Douglas, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Douglas that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated February 16, 2025; August 3, 2023; and June 11, 2018. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 87 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 360 households live in Douglas. About three quarters 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 1984.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 11 miles from Douglas, averages 52 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 7 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 8 electric utilities with service territory in Marshall County, among them Alabama Power Co and Albertville Municipal Utilities Board; the county page names the other 6.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024