By state
Tree removal in Louisiana
Tree removal in Louisiana: storm damage, trees on power lines, leaning and dead trees, and who licenses tree work. Pick your county or town below.
Call (888) 239-7893 free call, 24/7Calling is free and commits you to nothing. The work is priced after someone has seen the tree.
What brings trees down in Louisiana
From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2,958 reports of damaging thunderstorm wind across Louisiana’s 64 counties, and 2,315 of them mention trees, limbs or branches.
FEMA’s National Risk Index rates the risk as relatively high or very high from hurricanes in 24 of 64; from ice storms in 18 of 64; from strong wind in 11 of 64; from tornadoes in 10 of 64 counties.
If a tree is on a power line, the call goes to the electric utility first. EIA lists 38 electric utilities with service territory here; each county page names the ones that serve it.
Sources
Who licenses tree work
Louisiana requires an arborist license from the Department of Agriculture and Forestry for anyone who makes recommendations or does tree-surgery type work for a fee, which the department says includes tree removal, pruning and trimming. Work along utility rights of way has its own utility arborist license. The department publishes the lists of licensed arborists, and its Horticulture Commission answers questions at (225) 952-8100.
Check a license with the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
Source
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 Louisiana Department of Insurance, takes complaints about how a claim was handled. Insurance and fallen trees
Tree down, or about to come down?
-
On the house or roofGet people out from under it, photograph everything, call the insurer, then a crew. -
On a power lineThe utility comes first. Stay away and treat the line as live. -
On a carPhotograph it where it lies. The car claim goes to the auto policy. -
On a fence or shedDamage to a fence or shed is often covered differently from the house. -
Across the driveway or roadOn the street it is the city’s call. In the driveway, check the policy first. -
After a stormHanging limbs, split trunks, trees on houses, and the ones that look fine. -
LeaningLifted soil or cracked roots at the base turn a lean into a warning. -
Dead or dyingDead wood is brittle and unpredictable, which is why it often costs more to remove. -
Split or cracked trunkTwo stems from one point, or a crack down the trunk, are common failure points. -
Hanging broken limbIt can fall without warning. Keep people and cars out from under it. -
A neighbor’s treeWeather is nobody’s fault. A tree the neighbor was warned about can be.
Largest towns and cities
- New Orleans
- Baton Rouge
- Shreveport
- Metairie
- Lafayette
- Lake Charles
- Kenner
- Bossier City
- Monroe
- Alexandria
- Prairieville
- Houma
- Marrero
- Central
- Slidell
- Laplace
- New Iberia
- Terrytown
- Chalmette
- Ruston
- Bayou Cane
- Harvey
- Sulphur
- Hammond
- Zachary
- Shenandoah
- Natchitoches
- Gretna
- Estelle
- Youngsville
- Thibodaux
- Opelousas
- Pineville
- Luling
- Broussard
- River Ridge
- Mandeville
- West Monroe
- Gonzales
- Claiborne
Counties
- Acadia Parish
- Allen Parish
- Ascension Parish
- Assumption Parish
- Avoyelles Parish
- Beauregard Parish
- Bienville Parish
- Bossier Parish
- Caddo Parish
- Calcasieu Parish
- Caldwell Parish
- Cameron Parish
- Catahoula Parish
- Claiborne Parish
- Concordia Parish
- De Soto Parish
- East Baton Rouge Parish
- East Carroll Parish
- East Feliciana Parish
- Evangeline Parish
- Franklin Parish
- Grant Parish
- Iberia Parish
- Iberville Parish
- Jackson Parish
- Jefferson Davis Parish
- Jefferson Parish
- Lafayette Parish
- Lafourche Parish
- LaSalle Parish
- Lincoln Parish
- Livingston Parish
- Madison Parish
- Morehouse Parish
- Natchitoches Parish
- Orleans Parish
- Ouachita Parish
- Plaquemines Parish
- Pointe Coupee Parish
- Rapides Parish
- Red River Parish
- Richland Parish
- Sabine Parish
- St. Bernard Parish
- St. Charles Parish
- St. Helena Parish
- St. James Parish
- St. John the Baptist Parish
- St. Landry Parish
- St. Martin Parish
- St. Mary Parish
- St. Tammany Parish
- Tangipahoa Parish
- Tensas Parish
- Terrebonne Parish
- Union Parish
- Vermilion Parish
- Vernon Parish
- Washington Parish
- Webster Parish
- West Baton Rouge Parish
- West Carroll Parish
- West Feliciana Parish
- Winn Parish
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.
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.