Emergency Tree Service in Haddonfield, NJ

Haddonfield has about 9,000 street trees, and most of its houses sit under one.

Haddonfield is a small borough with an unusually old and dense canopy. Its historic core along Kings Highway goes back to the early 1700s, and the residential streets that spread out from it were built mostly in the late 1800s and early 1900s, with houses close to the sidewalk and big trees between the sidewalk and the curb. The borough's Shade Tree Commission oversees roughly 9,000 street trees, and Haddonfield has held Tree City USA status for close to thirty years.

That many big trees on narrow lots means a storm here almost never drops a tree on open ground. It lands on a porch, a roof, a car parked at the curb, or the overhead lines that run down most blocks. Toward the edges of town, along the Cooper River side, Crows Woods, and Hopkins Pond, the lots back up to woods and the trees get even larger.

Power outages tell the story. On June 3, 2020, a derecho and a second line of severe storms behind it left more than 4,000 PSE&G customers in Haddonfield without power, most of the borough, and smaller wind and ice events regularly knock out large parts of town.