Storm & Emergency Tree Service in Ferndale, CA

Ferndale is a Victorian village on the Eel River delta, and its trees tell that story: big Monterey cypress and eucalyptus planted as windbreaks around the dairies a century ago, mature ornamentals behind the picket fences on the side streets off Main, and the dark line of Russ Park's spruce and redwood rising behind town. Almost everything here is old, tall, and standing in wind.

How storm & emergency tree service goes in Ferndale

After a big front everyone in Ferndale calls at once, so here is the honest order: a tree on a house with people in it, then a tree across a road or a drive near Main Street, then damaged trees still standing, then cleanup. We split the job so more people get out of danger faster, and we tell you where you are on the list.

Pacific wind comes ashore at Centerville and crosses the Eel River bottoms with nothing to slow it, and the century-old cypress and eucalyptus rows have been holding it for decades. The dominant Ferndale hazard is an aging windbreak tree, a huge Monterey cypress or blue gum eucalyptus, failing next to a house, a barn, or a road. Ferndale is on the Fortuna crew's regular loop, a short drive across the river, so the quote and the job both happen fast.

When Ferndale homeowners call for storm & emergency tree service

• A tree across the driveway or a road near Russ Park that someone has to use.
• Lines down or tangled in the tree; that is a utility call first, then us.
• A tree resting on a roof that has stopped moving; it is still loaded and can shift.
• Storm damage you need documented for an insurance claim.

Ferndale is a Victorian village on tight in-town lots surrounded by dairies and ranch lanes, so one week we are roping limbs over a picket fence and the next we are taking down a windbreak tree beside a barn. Delta soil stays soft most of the winter, so big removals on the bottoms are planned for firm-soil months whenever the tree allows it.

Working in Ferndale

The wind is the thing. Storms come off the Pacific at Centerville, cross the bottoms with nothing to slow them, and lean on the cypress rows and tall eucalyptus that have been holding that wind for decades. When one of those trees starts to fail, it is usually a big one, and it is usually close to a barn, a house, or a road. We take those down in pieces, and we thin and reduce the ones that still have good years in them.

Around Ferndale that means Main Street, Russ Park, Wildcat Road, Centerville, and the properties between. Pacific wind across the Eel River bottoms, century-old windbreak rows, and historic homes on tight village lots.