Tree Service in Detroit, MI

Most Detroit removals run $450 to $3,200. Small ornamentals under 30 feet are $450 to $800, mature 30 to 60 foot trees are $900 to $1,600, and large oaks or pines over 60 feet run $1,800 and up. Access matters a lot here. If a bucket truck can reach the tree from the driveway the job is cheaper than if everything has to be climbed and rigged out through a side yard.

For a tree on your own Detroit property, generally no permit is needed, but two Detroit-specific things matter more than the permit question. First, the tree in the strip between the sidewalk and the street is the city's, not yours. Removing it is not your call and not your bill. That goes through the General Services Department. Second, Detroit runs a Dead, Dangerous and Diseased Tree Program that will trim or remove a qualifying tree on private property at no charge to the resident. If yours might qualify, report it to the city before you pay anyone. It costs nothing to ask, and if it qualifies you have saved the whole job. If it does not qualify, call us. We check the current ordinance either way.

Emergency calls in Detroit, meaning a tree on a house, a car, or blocking a driveway, get a crew dispatched same day, 24 hours a day. Standard removals and pruning are usually scheduled within a week.

Silver maple, Norway maple, honey locust, and a lot of aging ash that never got treated for emerald ash borer. Ash removal is still steady work across all of Metro Detroit because emerald ash borer killed most untreated ash and dead ash gets more dangerous and more expensive to take down every year it stands.

Detroit has a real permit issue that most suburbs do not. Trees in the right of way, the strip between the sidewalk and the street, belong to the city and the General Services Department handles those at 313-628-0900. Anything inside your property line is yours. We check the line before we quote so you are not paying us for a tree the city will take down free.

Every crew we send carries general liability and workers compensation, and you get the certificate before work starts. Ask any company that quotes you for the same document. If they hesitate, that is your answer.