Emergency Tree Service in Rockland County, NY

Rockland is a county of wooded ridges, and most of its houses sit right under them.

Rockland County packs a lot of houses into a small, hilly county. The Palisades ridge and Hook Mountain run along the Hudson above Piermont, Nyack, and Upper Nyack, the Ramapo Mountains and Harriman State Park fill the west, and in between are the towns of Clarkstown, Orangetown, Ramapo, Haverstraw, and Stony Point. Neighborhoods in New City, Pearl River, Nanuet, Congers, and Valley Cottage were built into second-growth oak and maple woods, so many lots have tall trees on two or three sides of the house and overhead lines along the road.

Storms here are rarely subtle. Hurricane Sandy in October 2012 pushed a tidal surge into Piermont and the river villages and knocked out power to most of the county. The October 2011 nor'easter dropped heavy wet snow on trees still in leaf, and Tropical Storm Isaias in August 2020 left close to half of Orange & Rockland's Rockland County customers in the dark. The county executive at the time called Isaias second only to Sandy.

The terrain makes it worse. Thin soil over rock on the ridges, steep driveways, and wet ground along the Hackensack, Sparkill Creek, and the Mahwah River let big oaks tip over once the soil is soaked. The National Weather Service New York/Upton office covers Rockland County.