Santa Barbara County, California

Tree removal in Santa Barbara, CA

Tree removal in Santa Barbara. The National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports with trees in them near Santa Barbara from 2016 through 2025, the latest on October 14, 2025. About half the homes in Santa Barbara are detached houses.

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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 is particular to Santa Barbara

Storm reports near Santa Barbara

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged 2 storm reports near Santa Barbara that mention trees, limbs or branches. The latest are dated October 14, 2025 and September 3, 2017. The strongest wind gust recorded in them was 81 mph, measured.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

Homes and who decides

About 36,620 households live in Santa Barbara. About half the homes are detached houses and about four in ten occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1964. With that many rentals, a tree at a rented home usually goes to the landlord or property manager first; the lease generally says who arranges and pays for tree work.

Before you call

Source: Census ACS 2019–2023

If a tree is on a line

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists 3 electric utilities with service territory in Santa Barbara County, among them Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Southern California Edison Co; the county page names the other one.

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024