Tree removal in Saks, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 3 storm reports near Saks that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated May 20, 2025 and May 27, 2024. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 70 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 4,090 households live in Saks. 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 1975.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 9 miles from Saks, averages 52 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 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