Emergency Tree Service in Dutchess County, NY

Dutchess County's old trees line its river towns, estates, and country roads.

Dutchess County stretches from the Hudson to the Connecticut line. Along the river, the City of Poughkeepsie, Beacon, Wappingers Falls, Hyde Park, Rhinebeck, and Red Hook have older neighborhoods and historic estates with big maples, oaks, and beeches, many of them a century old. The middle of the county, around Fishkill, East Fishkill, LaGrange, Pleasant Valley, and Millbrook, is newer subdivisions cut into wooded hills, and the east, from Pawling and Dover up to Amenia and Millerton, is farm and forest country with long tree-lined roads.

Storms here are often about wind and wet snow. Hurricane Irene in August 2011 flooded roads and brought down so many trees that Central Hudson reported more than 115,000 customers out in Dutchess and Ulster counties, with Hyde Park, Pleasant Valley, Union Vale, Poughkeepsie, and Dover among the hardest hit. Two months later the October 2011 nor'easter dropped more than 20 inches of wet snow around Millbrook on trees still in leaf. On May 15, 2018, the National Weather Service confirmed a macroburst with winds estimated near 105 mph along the I-84 corridor between Beacon, Wappingers Falls, and East Fishkill that toppled hundreds of trees.

Summer thunderstorms add to the list; a July 2026 storm hit Beekman and Pawling especially hard. The National Weather Service Albany office covers Dutchess County.