Tree removal in Ohatchee, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Ohatchee that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated August 2, 2024 and January 11, 2020. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 60 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 490 households live in Ohatchee. About two thirds of the homes are detached houses and about nine in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1988.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 15 miles from Ohatchee, averages 60 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 8 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 Calhoun County, among them Alabama Power Co and Cherokee Electric Coop; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024