Tree removal, tree trimming, stump work and storm calls from a local Beaverton tree service. Tell us about the tree. We walk the site, explain what it needs in plain words, and put the estimate in writing.
Tree Service Beaverton, 1915 NE Stucki Ave, Beaverton, OR 97006. Estimates are free and in writing, and cleanup is part of every job.
One Beaverton lot, five common tree jobs.
Arborists read a yard from above, tree by tree. Pick a tag to see how we'd handle each one.
1The street tree in the planting strip
It stands in the public right-of-way, so inside Beaverton you maintain it but the city decides whether it can come out. We raise the canopy so low branches clear the city's heights (8 feet over the sidewalk, 12 over the street, 14 on arterials), take out deadwood, and handle the arborvitae hedge and shrub trimming on the side line while we're there.
Removing a street tree takes a city permit, and the permit normally requires replacement tree planting from the city's approved list. Cutting away 20 percent or more of the crown or roots counts as removal. City code also says tree pruning in the right-of-way has to follow recognized arboriculture standards or be supervised by an ISA certified arborist.
There is no room to fell it, so a climber takes it down in sections and lowers each piece on ropes. Nothing lands on the roof, the fence or the neighbor's side. First we tell you whether it has to come down at all. A healthy tree with one heavy side can often be reduced and thinned instead.
Ordinary backyard trees inside the city usually need no permit. Trees in a protected grove, a natural resource area or an approved landscape plan do, and we check before booking the work.
Fallen trees are obvious. A cracked limb that hasn't reached the ground yet is the dangerous kind. Keep people and cars out from under it and call. We secure it, bring it down under control and clear the driveway first so you can get out.
If wires are involved, Portland General Electric has to make them safe before anyone touches the tree. Take photos before anything is moved. Your insurer will ask for them.
A tree stump like this one gets ground down below lawn level, so you can rake in topsoil and seed over it. The chips stay as mulch or leave with us, your choice.
Before the grinder comes out we request an 811 utility locate, which takes at least two business days in Oregon. The locate marks public lines only, so you flag anything private such as irrigation pipe or lighting wire.
Grinding leaves roots and chips in the ground, and buried wood settles as it rots. Where a slab, a footing, a fence post or a new tree is going, the stump and its main roots come out whole. Then the hole is backfilled and compacted.
Same 811 locate as grinding, and more reason for it: digging out roots goes deeper and wider than a grinder does.
A general tree service, not a one-job outfit. Five tree services, one crew, and one written scope, so you know what is being cut, what happens to the wood and whether the stump is included.
Dead, leaning, storm-split, or simply too big for where it was planted. Most Beaverton removals are large trees in tight yards: a fence on one side, a heat pump on the other, a neighbor's roof a few feet away. We take them down in sections with ropes, or fell them whole when there is honestly room. Dead trees go sooner rather than later, because dead wood turns brittle and gets harder to climb safely. The wood is hauled off or left cut to the length you want.
Wind and ice put fallen trees and broken branches on roofs, cars and service lines, usually at night. Call first and keep clear. Emergency tree removal starts with making the site safe and getting the weight off the structure. You get dated photos and an itemized invoice your insurer can work from.
Tree pruning done right is the best thing you can do for tree health and for the roof underneath. That covers deadwood removal, crown cleaning and thinning, reducing branches away from roofs and wires, clearance over sidewalks and driveways, fruit tree pruning, and the arborvitae hedges half of Beaverton grows along its fences. A good arborist takes off as little as the job allows, and every cut is made at the branch collar so the tree can seal it. We don't top trees.
A tree stump left in the lawn is in the mower's way for years. The grinder takes it down below lawn level, so you can topsoil and seed the same week. Surface roots can be chased out too. Chips stay as mulch or go with us, and an 811 utility locate comes before every grind.
When a stump sits where a patio, a footing, a fence post or a new tree has to go, grinding isn't enough. We dig out the stump and its main roots, then backfill and compact the hole so the ground doesn't sink later.
The Tualatin Valley grows big trees fast, and Beaverton's mature trees are mostly Douglas-fir, bigleaf maple, western redcedar and Oregon white oak. Three things shape tree care here more than anything else.
Summer 2026Emerald ash borer reached Beaverton
In August 2026 the Oregon Department of Forestry confirmed emerald ash borer in Beaverton and at Bethany Lake Park, four years after it first turned up in Oregon, at the far end of the Portland metro area in Forest Grove. Arborists here have been watching ash trees for it ever since. It kills ash of every kind, from the native Oregon ash that lines creeks and wet ground to the ash planted as street trees.
Watch for a crown thinning from the top, bark splitting over S-shaped tunnels, D-shaped exit holes about an eighth of an inch wide, and heavy woodpecker work. Washington County is inside the state quarantine, so ash wood, chips and hardwood firewood can't leave the quarantine area. We dispose of ash accordingly.
Portland General Electric's report on the January 2024 ice storm named Beaverton, Tigard and Lake Oswego as its hardest-hit areas. About 440,000 customers lost power that week, much of it to trees and branches on lines.
The failures are predictable: long, over-extended limbs on bigleaf maple and birch, twin stems with bark trapped between them (arborists call it included bark), arborvitae splayed open by ice, and firs standing in saturated soil. A fall inspection, some weight reduction, and sometimes tree cabling on a split-prone stem add up to a far smaller job than a January emergency.
All yearStreet trees and yard trees follow different rules
Inside the city, the tree in your planting strip is yours to maintain and the city's to permit. Backyard trees are mostly left to you, except the protected ones.
And if your Beaverton address is really in unincorporated Washington County, as much of Aloha, Cedar Mill and Bethany is, none of the city rules apply. The checker below sorts out which case you're in.
Two questions. A Beaverton tree service ought to know this cold, so here is how we read the city code and the development code, and who makes the final call.
Pick where the tree stands and the answer appears here.
Yes. Get a city permit first.
City code bars anyone from removing a tree in the public right-of-way without one. You, as the adjoining owner, maintain the tree, and a permitted removal normally comes with a replacement from the city's approved list. Heavy pruning counts too: cutting 20 percent or more of the crown, trunk or roots is treated as removal.
Usually not, unless the tree is protected.
Most ordinary yard trees come out without a permit. The development code protects significant and historic trees, trees in significant groves and natural resource areas, and landscape and mitigation trees. It also tracks healthy trees of 10 inches diameter and up as community trees, so taking out several in one year can trigger a review. Ask the Planning Division which applies to your lot. If Planning wants an arborist report, check the credential before you pay for one: an ISA certified arborist has a certification number you can look up.
Assume yes until Planning says otherwise.
Trees planted or kept under an approved landscape plan are protected as landscape trees, and that covers most apartment, commercial and HOA common-area trees. A board vote or a manager's approval doesn't replace city review.
City rules don't apply. County rules might.
In unincorporated Washington County the adjoining owner is generally responsible for street trees, and you need a right-of-way permit if the work affects traffic. County land use rules focus on mapped natural resource areas and creek corridors. Call Washington County Land Use and Transportation before cutting near either.
Check that first. It changes everything.
A Beaverton mailing address doesn't mean you are inside the city. Large parts of 97003, 97006, 97007 and 97078 are unincorporated. Look at your property tax statement: if the City of Beaverton isn't listed among the taxing districts, county rules apply instead.
Creek, wetland and natural-area buffers are regulated separately, by the city inside its limits and through Clean Water Services' vegetated corridors across urban Washington County. Expect limits on cutting there, even for dead trees, and ask before any work starts.
Trees a developer was required to keep or plant are protected in the development code as grove, landscape or mitigation trees, often for the life of the subdivision. HOA approval alone is not enough.
Safety comes first. Keep everyone clear, and if wires are involved call 911 and PGE before anyone touches the tree. City code recognizes emergency removal of a right-of-way tree to avoid imminent injury. Photograph the tree before and after so you can show why it had to come down.
This is a plain-language summary, not a legal determination. For lots inside the city, the Beaverton Planning Division (503-526-2420) makes the call. We check every job before booking it.
How a job goes
What hiring a tree service should look like, from the first call to the last rake.
You call or send the form
Tell us what the tree is doing and where it stands. A couple of phone photos help, especially of the base and of whatever it would hit.
We walk the site and write the estimate
You get the scope in plain language: which trees and limbs, how they come down, where the wood and chips go, whether the stump is included, and what happens to the lawn, beds and fence in between.
Permits and utility locates come before the saws
Street trees and protected trees get sorted out with the city first. Stump work waits for the 811 locate. If we need the neighbor's side for access or rigging, we ask them, not you.
Work day
Drop zones are protected, limbs over structures are roped down instead of dropped, and brush goes through the chipper as it comes off the tree.
Cleanup and walkthrough
We rake, blow and haul. You walk the yard with us before we leave, and anything you don't like gets fixed on the spot.
Where we work
All of Beaverton, plus the neighboring parts of Washington County on both sides of the Sunset Highway, from Hillsboro to the edge of Northwest Portland.
We offer the same tree services in every one of them. Most of the nearby communities are unincorporated, which means Washington County's rules apply there instead of the city's. Hillsboro and Tigard run their own street tree permits. Each area page spells out what that means for a removal on your street.
A note from Harry Fauver
I started Tree Service Beaverton to do tree work the way I'd want it done at my own house. Someone shows up when they said they would, tells you what the tree really needs, puts it in writing, and leaves the yard cleaner than they found it.
Professional tree care is mostly judgment: what to cut, what to leave alone, and when a healthy tree just needs time. Sometimes what the tree needs is less than you expected. If a limb can be reduced instead of a whole tree removed, we'll say so. If the tree belongs to the city or stands in a protected area, you'll hear that from us before you spend anything.
Longer answers on permits, storms and tree care live on the questions and answers page.
Do I need a permit to remove a tree in Beaverton?
Street trees in the right-of-way always need a city permit. Most ordinary yard trees don't, but trees in protected groves, natural resource areas or an approved landscape plan do. Outside city limits, county rules apply instead. Use the checker above, then confirm with the Planning Division.
Is emerald ash borer in Beaverton?
Yes. The state confirmed it here in August 2026. If you have an ash, have it looked at now. A healthy ash can be protected with insecticide treatment from a licensed applicator. A declining one turns brittle and gets riskier to remove the longer it stands.
Do I need a certified arborist?
Not for routine pruning or a straightforward removal. For a written risk assessment, a report the city asks for, or a dispute with a neighbor, yes. ISA certified arborists are credentialed by the International Society of Arboriculture, and its online directory lets you verify any name.
What should I do if a tree falls on my house or car?
Get everyone out from under it and stay clear. If wires are down or touching the tree, call 911 and PGE and keep well back. Then call us. Take photos before anything is moved, because your insurer will want them.
What is the difference between stump grinding and stump removal?
Grinding takes the stump below lawn level and leaves the roots to rot in place, which is fine under lawn and beds. Removal digs out the stump and main roots. You need that before a slab, a footing, a fence post or a new tree goes in the same spot.
When is the best time to trim trees in Beaverton?
Most structural tree pruning is easiest from late fall through winter, when the tree is dormant and the branch structure is visible. Deadwood and hazard limbs can come out any time. Storm-prep pruning is best done before the ice season, and fruit trees keep their own calendar.
Do you haul everything away?
Yes, unless you ask otherwise. Brush is chipped, wood is removed or left in the lengths you choose, and chips can stay as mulch. Ash wood is handled under the emerald ash borer quarantine rules.
Do you offer tree services outside Beaverton city limits?
Yes. We work in Aloha, Cedar Mill, Cedar Hills, Bethany, Rock Creek, Tanasbourne, Oak Hills, Raleigh Hills and Garden Home, plus Hillsboro and Tigard. Many of those areas are unincorporated, so county tree rules apply there instead of the city's.
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