Emergency Tree Service in Orange County, NY

Orange County mixes old river towns, wooded hills, and long rural roads, and storms find all of them.

Orange County runs from the Hudson Highlands and the river towns of Newburgh, New Windsor, and Cornwall west across the Wallkill Valley to Middletown and Goshen, and on to Port Jervis on the Delaware. The south end is hill country: Monroe, Woodbury, Tuxedo, Warwick, and Greenwood Lake, where houses sit on wooded lots along winding roads. Older neighborhoods in Newburgh, Middletown, and the villages have big maples and oaks along the streets, and in the newer subdivisions the woods come right up to the back yard.

The county has taken a run of hard storms. Hurricane Irene in August 2011 flooded rivers and creeks across the county, washed out sections of the Port Jervis rail line, and put Orange County in the federal disaster declaration. Two months later the October 2011 nor'easter dropped wet snow on trees still in leaf. Sandy followed in 2012, and Tropical Storm Isaias in August 2020 left about a third of Orange & Rockland's Orange County customers without power.

Long fall distances are the common thread. A tall oak or tulip poplar at the edge of the woods can reach a house a long way off, and on rural roads one tree can close the only way in. The National Weather Service New York/Upton office covers Orange County.