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Tree Service in Placerville

Need tree service in Placerville? Yes, we cover it. Got a tree down, or one that looks like it's thinking about it? Call us. We answer, track down a tree service in Placerville that knows the area, and get that tree company headed your way.

Call (530) 764-5890

That's the whole job on our end. We answer, we find the right person, and we set up the visit. You don't pay us a dime for it.

Tree service in Placerville after a storm

Placerville gets about 38.11 inches of rain a year. It comes on around 66 days, mostly in winter. That's a lot of wet ground under a lot of big trees.

Trees in town don't see much snow. The mountains to the east get the heavy stuff. But wind doesn't care how high you live. The National Weather Service figures a little damage is possible when the wind holds steady at 40 to 50 mph.

The last few winters have been rough on trees here. December 2021 brought what the county's own bulletin called an unprecedented storm. The sheriff signed a local emergency order on December 29 that year. A year later, the City of Placerville declared its own local emergency on 12/31/22. Then came March 2023. The county said record snowstorms left power out, trees down and roads unplowed. Plenty of trees came down, and the trees took the blame.

Here's the cheap advice. When a wind warning comes out, the weather service says to move the car where falling trees or lines are less likely to hit it. A tree service costs money. Moving the truck doesn't.

Old trees in an old town

Placerville is the county seat. It became a city in 1854, and it was Hangtown before that. The name came from men hanged on an oak on Main Street. The spot where the Old Hangman's Tree stood is an ice cream parlor now. Times change.

The town still has lots of old buildings from the Gold Rush days, and plenty of old trees to go with them. Big oaks lean over porches, sheds and narrow streets. When one of those drops a limb, it lands on something.

Oaks don't always wait for a storm, either. UC Master Gardeners have a name for it, summer branch drop. A hot afternoon with no breeze is when it tends to strike, and the long flat limbs are the usual oak limbs to snap. No wind needed.

Master Gardeners name five oaks you'll see most around here: blue, valley, black, canyon and interior live. Old oaks of every kind are worth a look now and then.

Tree service on steep lots in Placerville

Downtown sits at about 1,867 feet. The rest of town runs from 1,800 feet to nearly 4,000. A lot of homes sit on a slope, with a tree above the house or below the driveway.

Cost guides say a tree on a hill costs more than one on flat ground. It's slower work and riskier. A big pine above a roof may have to come down in small pieces, one rope at a time. Nobody's dropping that in one go.

What tree work costs around here

Here are ranges from published cost guides. They aren't quotes. Your pro sees the tree first and names the price before anything gets cut.

Numbers from: Fixr (tree removal), Today's Homeowner (Sacramento), Homeyou (tree service costs). National and valley figures, not Placerville quotes.

A tree on the ground is the cheap kind. A tree on the house, near wires or up a steep bank is the other kind. If a storm leaves a branch hanging over the roof, one guide says emergency work can add $50 to $200 or more.

If the tree hit your house, ring your insurer. Per Consumer Reports, the usual cap for hauling a tree off is $500 or $1,000. House repairs may be covered on top of that.

Five kinds of tree calls

1. Emergency tree removal in Placerville. A tree on the roof, the car or the fence. It gets taken apart in pieces and hauled off, then whatever's left is made safe.
2. Storm damage cleanup in Placerville. Snapped tops, split trunks, limbs all over the yard after a blow.
3. Fallen tree removal in Placerville. Trunks across the driveway, the private road or the creek crossing.
4. Hazard tree inspection in Placerville. A trained eye on the oak that leans a bit more every year.
5. Hillside tree removal in Placerville. Trees on steep banks above or below the house.

The full rundown is on the tree help page.

How a call goes

1. You call (530) 764-5890 or send the note.
2. We ask three things. What fell, what street, and how soon.
3. We call around for a tree pro who knows your end of things, then set a time.
4. The pro looks at it and tells you the price.
5. You decide. Rather have two prices? Just ask, and we'll go looking for another pro.

Trees, roads and wires

Highway 50 and Highway 49 cross right in Placerville. Highway 50 also has three stoplights here, though it's a freeway everywhere else. So a tree across the road here backs things up in a hurry.

A tree on a public road is a 911 call, not a job for you. On your own side of the fence, it's yours. That's when you call us.

Wires make it a different job. Back in the 2021 storm, county road workers kept their hands off any tree hung up in power or phone wires. To them every wire was hot. Take the same view. For a tree hazard near lines that isn't an emergency, PG&E's number is 1-800-743-5000.

Inside the city line, or out?

Placerville has its own tree removal policy in city code, Title 8, Chapter 13. Out past city limits, county rules apply instead. If you live in town and a big healthy tree has to go, ask the city first. A tree that already fell is a different case, but asking is free.

Towns around Placerville

We set up tree pros for homes in Placerville, ZIP 95667, and the places around it.

• Smith Flat
• Camino
• Pollock Pines
• Pleasant Valley
• Newtown
• Somerset
• Diamond Springs
• El Dorado
• Logtown
• Shingle Springs
• Rescue
• Gold Hill
• Coloma
• Lotus
• Kelsey
• Garden Valley

Your road missing? Ring us anyway. If we can't help, we'll tell you straight. The towns we cover page says what's different about each one.