Local coverage
Project conversations across Madison County and the Tennessee Valley.
Whether a request gets picked up depends on which independent providers are free at the time. Click through to any community below for notes on its housing stock and site conditions that matter for planning.
Madison
Madison sits just west of Huntsville near Redstone Arsenal and has been one of Alabama's fastest-growing cities for two decades, so its tight newer envelopes hold interior humidity rather than shedding it.
Local planning notes →Athens
Athens is the seat of Limestone County northwest of Huntsville and predates the city's aerospace boom by more than a century, and its antebellum-era housing has wall assemblies that dry inward and hold moisture.
Local planning notes →Owens Cross Roads
Owens Cross Roads sits southeast of Huntsville in a more rural stretch of Madison County, where wooded sites keep the ground beside foundations shaded and damp year-round.
Local planning notes →Meridianville
Meridianville is an unincorporated community north of Huntsville that has absorbed a large share of the metro's residential growth, and its new slabs combine construction moisture with a rising water table.
Local planning notes →New Market
New Market is a small, historically rural community in northeastern Madison County that has stayed lower-density, where unvented crawl spaces under older farmhouses trap ground moisture.
Local planning notes →Hazel Green
Hazel Green sits at Madison County's northern edge near the Tennessee line and has grown from a rural crossroads into a bedroom community, mixing old and new envelopes on the same road.
Local planning notes →Harvest
Harvest is an unincorporated community west of Huntsville near Redstone Arsenal, where rapid subdivision growth on former farmland has changed where water sits around foundations.
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