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Tree removal in Florida

Tree removal in Florida: storm damage, trees on power lines, leaning and dead trees, and the state limit on tree permits. Pick your county or town below.

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Calling is free and commits you to nothing. The work is priced after someone has seen the tree.

A suburban street after a storm, with fallen branches and a tree crew cutting a trunk

What brings trees down in Florida

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 4,548 reports of damaging thunderstorm wind across Florida’s 67 counties, and 3,277 of them mention trees, limbs or branches.

FEMA’s National Risk Index rates the risk as relatively high or very high from hurricanes in 44 of 67; from strong wind in 18 of 67; from tornadoes in 23 of 67 counties.

If a tree is on a power line, the call goes to the electric utility first. EIA lists 52 electric utilities with service territory here; each county page names the ones that serve it.

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Who licenses tree work

We did not find a Florida state license that applies to tree work as such. That does not settle it for your address: cities and counties may license contractors or businesses. Before work starts, ask any company for a certificate of liability insurance and proof of workers’ compensation coverage.

Permits

Florida limits what a city or county can require. Under section 163.045 of the Florida Statutes, a local government may not require a notice, application, approval, permit, fee or mitigation for pruning, trimming or removing a tree on a single-family residential lot if the owner has documentation from an ISA-certified arborist or a Florida-licensed landscape architect that the tree poses an unacceptable risk to persons or property. The assessment has to follow the ISA tree risk assessment procedures, and no replanting can be required. The section does not cover mangroves.

Source

Florida Statutes, section 163.045, tree pruning, trimming, or removal on residential property

Insurance questions

Whether a policy pays for a fallen tree, and how much, is in the policy itself, so the first call is to the insurer. The state regulator, the Florida Department of Financial Services, takes complaints about how a claim was handled. Insurance and fallen trees

Tree down, or about to come down?

Largest towns and cities

Counties

A person on the phone in a back yard looking at a large fallen tree

What you will be asked

Where the tree is and what is under it or near it: the house, a power line, a car, a fence, the street.
Whether it is standing, leaning, split or already down, and since when.
Roughly how tall it is and how thick the trunk is at chest height. A guess is fine.
Whether a truck can get close, or the tree is in a back yard behind a fence or a narrow gate.
Whether there is damage your insurer should see, and whether you have called them yet.
The address, and whether you own the property or rent it.

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The line takes: tree removal, emergency removal after a storm, trimming and pruning, lot and land clearing, tree health checks, cabling and bracing, and brush and debris cleanup, for homeowners, renters and businesses. It is not for: jobs, equipment, firewood, tree services looking for work, or a price quoted over the phone without anyone seeing the tree.