Tree removal in Smiths Station, AL

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 6 storm reports near Smiths Station that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated June 30, 2023; April 12, 2020; and June 7, 2019. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 58 mph, estimated by the reporter.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

About 1,730 households live in Smiths Station. 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 1991.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 6 miles from Smiths Station, averages 46 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F, and 3 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 Lee County, among them Alabama Power Co and City of Opelika; the county page names the other 2.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024