Emergency Tree Service in Ridgefield, CT

Ridgefield's hills and old trees make storm damage a road-by-road problem.

Ridgefield is a hilly, heavily wooded town on the New York line in northern Fairfield County. Around the village and Main Street the trees are old and big, standing over historic houses and sidewalks. Out in Ridgebury, Titicus, Farmingville, Scotland, and Branchville, homes sit on wooded lots along winding back roads, with stone walls at the edge and overhead lines strung through the canopy. A single failed oak can close a road, pull down a line, and land on a house at the same time.

Tropical Storm Isaias on August 4, 2020 knocked out power to about two-thirds of Ridgefield the night it hit, and more than a week later Ridgefield still had some of the largest remaining outages in the state, with uprooted trees and wires still down. The October 2011 nor'easter, which dropped heavy wet snow on trees still in leaf, and Hurricane Sandy in 2012 also brought down trees across town.

Severe summer thunderstorms are the other big risk up here. On May 15, 2018, storms with tornadoes and a macroburst tore through the greater Danbury area, flattening trees in nearby Brookfield and killing two people in Danbury and New Fairfield when trees fell on vehicles. The National Weather Service New York office in Upton (OKX) issues warnings for Ridgefield.