The northern part of Alabama, along the Tennessee River Valley, is most vulnerable to tornadoes.

Alabama receives an average of 56 inches (1,400 mm) of rainfall annually.

Greater Birmingham is Alabama’s largest metropolitan area and its economic center.

Alabama is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida to the south, and Mississippi to the west.

Alabama is home to roughly 307 native freshwater fish species.

Alabama’s coastal counties, part of the former Spanish West Florida territory, officially became part of the United States in 1819 with the Adams–Onís Treaty.

Snowfall is less frequent along Alabama’s Gulf Coast, sometimes going several years without any snowfall.

During Reconstruction, Alabama was represented in Congress by three African-American congressmen: Jeremiah Haralson, Benjamin S. Turner, and James T. Rapier.

The Yazoo lands referred to most of what is now the northern two-thirds of Alabama, claimed by the Province of Georgia from 1767 onwards. Following the Revolutionary War, it remained part of Georgia until added to the Mississippi Territory ...Read more

Hurricane Ivan, a category 3 storm upon landfall, struck Alabama in 2004, causing over $18 billion in damage. It was one of the most destructive storms in the state’s modern history.