When a tree needs attention, start with a clear plan.

It takes a description of a tree problem and routes it to an independent tree-care company that serves that town and handles that kind of work. We are not the company that climbs, cuts or grinds anything — the company that accepts the request is responsible for its own assessment, written estimate, contract, insurance and work. Everything else here is guidance written to help you make the decision and ask better questions before anyone quotes.

No, and that is deliberate rather than an oversight. There is no staffed line and no office to walk into, so publishing a number would imply a business that does not exist. The request form is the contact route, and it captures the details — service, town, timing, what the tree could strike, whether a line is involved — that let a crew turn up with the right equipment rather than book a second visit.

Sort it by danger. Call 911 if anyone is hurt or trapped. Call the electric utility and stay well back if anything may be touching electrical equipment. Call the town or city highway department if a public road is blocked, or the VTrans district on a numbered highway. Only after those is it a tree-service question — and if the material is on the ground, away from wires and not under tension, it can wait for a scheduled visit.

Greater Burlington and Chittenden County, plus the nearby towns that share the same crews and travel routes: Burlington, South Burlington, Winooski, Essex, Essex Junction, Colchester, Williston, Shelburne, Charlotte, Hinesburg, Richmond, Jericho, Underhill, Westford, Milton, Fairfax, Cambridge and Jeffersonville. Each has its own page, because the constraint that governs a job in Winooski is not the one that governs a job in Underhill.

We do not publish prices, because we do not perform the work and quoting someone else's business would be inventing facts. What we can tell you is what moves the number, and it is rarely the tree's height: whether there is a usable drop zone, how wide the access is, whether the ground will carry a truck, what sits underneath, and above all what happens to the wood and chips afterwards. Every service page has a table of exactly those factors.

No. There is no review corpus we could stand behind, and inventing or aggregating one would be exactly the kind of claim this site exists not to make. What we publish instead is the decision content — what to verify, which legal entity signs, how to read a scope, how to check insurance with the insurer rather than the contractor.

Submitting a request costs nothing. You pay the company that does the work, under its own contract with you, at the price on its own written estimate. Nothing on this site obliges you to accept any quote, and requesting an assessment is not a commitment to have the work done.

It depends on what you have described and what the weather has been doing. An urgent request during a quiet week moves fast. After a regional wind or ice event, every crew in the county is committed within hours and the ordering is by danger rather than by who submitted first — a tree on an occupied house ahead of a tree on a garage, ahead of a blocked driveway.

The exact address with a landmark, what the tree is touching, whether anyone is displaced, whether wires may be involved, and one wide photograph taken from well outside the possible fall area. That photograph tells a crew more about equipment and access than any written description, and it is what lets them arrive with the right machine.

Not from here, and nobody honest can. Risk is the tree's condition combined with what sits underneath it and how likely a part is to fail — and decay is largely internal, so the deciding evidence is not visible in a photograph. What a website can do is tell you which signs warrant urgency and which are usually benign, which is what the guides here are for.

There is no state-level permit for felling a tree that stands entirely on your own land. What can apply is local: a municipal rule if any part of the trunk is in the public strip, a conservation or overlay district condition, a recorded subdivision condition, or association covenants. Occupying a public road for equipment is a separate approval and it is the one that most often applies in the denser towns.

Emerald ash borer is established in this region and untreated ash is being lost over time. The decision worth making now is per tree: an ash near a house, driveway or road either gets a repeating treatment programme started while its canopy is still full, or gets removed while the wood is sound and a climber can work it. Dead ash goes brittle within a couple of years and becomes a bucket or crane job.

It is operated by AIXIS LLC, a Vermont limited liability company. The site is the point of contact and the editorial voice; the work is performed by independent tree-care companies. That relationship is stated on the About page and in the Terms rather than being left for you to infer.

Only the independent company handling the request receives it. This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics or advertising trackers, and does not store your IP address — the rate-limit check keeps a salted hash that is deleted after seven days. The Privacy Policy describes what the code actually does rather than a generic boilerplate.

Yes, and those requests are handled differently because the requirements are different: certificates of insurance with the right additional-insured wording, off-hours work windows, traffic and pedestrian control, and a written inspection record. For a site with more than about a dozen significant trees, a tree inventory is usually the thing worth doing first.