Tree removal in Geraldine, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 13 storm reports near Geraldine that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 7, 2025; August 2, 2024; and August 10, 2023. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 470 households live in Geraldine. About eight in ten homes are detached houses and about three quarters of the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1980.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 5 miles from Geraldine, averages 65 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 11 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 4 electric utilities with service territory in DeKalb County, among them Cherokee Electric Coop and Fort Payne Improvement Authority; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024