Tree removal in Newton, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Newton that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated July 8, 2023; June 18, 2023; and March 31, 2021. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 63 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 600 households live in Newton. 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 1974.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 8 miles from Newton, averages 21 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 1 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 6 electric utilities with service territory in Dale County, among them Alabama Power Co and City of Dothan; the county page names the other 4.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024