Tree removal in Gardendale, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Gardendale that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated April 12, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 6,260 households live in Gardendale. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about eight in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1990.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 7 miles from Gardendale, averages 72 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 12 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 Jefferson County, among them Alabama Power Co and City of Bessemer Utilities; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024