Emergency Tree Service in Scarsdale, NY

In Scarsdale, the big trees are part of the house, until one comes down on it.

Scarsdale is a village of mature trees. Neighborhoods like Fox Meadow, Greenacres, Heathcote, Quaker Ridge, Edgewood, Murray Hill, and Arthur Manor were built out in the early and middle twentieth century around oaks, tulip poplars, and maples that are now very large. Many of the houses are Tudors and Colonials with slate roofs, stone walls, and gardens set under that canopy, and overhead lines run along most streets. When a big tree fails here, it usually lands on something expensive.

Tropical Storm Isaias on August 4, 2020 showed how fast that can happen. Hundreds of trees and wires came down across the village, trees landed on houses, and by the village's count roughly half of Scarsdale's Con Edison customers lost power, some of them for about a week. Sandy in 2012 brought widespread tree damage and outages across Westchester, and nor'easters, wet snow, and summer thunderstorms bring down trees and limbs in between.

Rock outcrops, shallow soil, and low, wet ground along the Bronx River and Hutchinson River corridors make it easier for a big tree to tip over once the soil is soaked. The National Weather Service New York/Upton office covers Scarsdale and the rest of Westchester County.