Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Perdido Beach, AL

Perdido Beach is an incorporated town on the northern shore of Perdido Bay in southern Baldwin County, Alabama, set between the mouths of Soldier Creek and Palmetto Creek.

It is one of Alabama's newest municipalities: residents voted to incorporate on April 21, 2009, and the town was formally incorporated on June 10, 2009, becoming Baldwin County's fourteenth municipality.

The push for incorporation was led by the Perdido Beach Property Owners and Residents Association, in part to head off possible annexation by the growing city of Orange Beach.

During the colonial period, smugglers used Perdido Bay and the Perdido River to evade Spanish customs duties, and Spanish coins, guns, and other artifacts have been found around the present-day town.

Modern settlement began in 1892, when Colonel L. B. Hatch purchased 32 acres; in 1900 he bought another 313 acres and began marking off and selling lots for the community he named Perdido Beach.

The 2020 census counted 555 residents in Perdido Beach, down slightly from 581 people living in 273 households in 2010.

The town covers just 1.19 square miles, all of it land, at an elevation of about 59 feet, and it can be reached only by County Road 97, which runs north from the town.

Perdido Beach's economy is centered on tourism and recreation, with easy access to coastal beaches, fishing piers, and the waters of Perdido Bay on Alabama's Gulf Coast.

The town has a humid subtropical climate, averaging about 61 inches of rain a year, with summer high temperatures averaging above 90 degrees and exposure to Gulf hurricanes.

Perdido Beach is part of the Daphne-Fairhope-Foley metropolitan area, and its public schools are run by the Baldwin County school system.