Tree removal in Locust Fork, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 5 storm reports near Locust Fork that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated March 4, 2025; September 13, 2024; and March 14, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 510 households live in Locust Fork. About seven 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 1995.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 13 miles from Locust Fork, 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 one electric utility with service territory in Blount County: Alabama Power Co.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024