Tree removal in Leeds, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4 storm reports near Leeds that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated November 25, 2025; May 16, 2023; and June 29, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,640 households live in Leeds. About three quarters of the 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 10 miles from Leeds, averages 47 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 6 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