Santa Cruz County, California

Tree removal in Santa Cruz, CA

Tree removal in Santa Cruz. The National Weather Service logged one storm report with trees in them near Santa Cruz from 2016 through 2025, the latest on January 6, 2019. About half the homes in Santa Cruz are detached houses.

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

What is particular to Santa Cruz

Storm reports near Santa Cruz

From 2016 through 2025 the National Weather Service logged one storm report near Santa Cruz that mention trees, limbs or branches. It is dated January 6, 2019.

After a storm

Source: NOAA Storm Events

Homes and who decides

About 21,670 households live in Santa Cruz. About half the homes are detached houses and about half the occupied homes are lived in by their owners. Half the homes were built before 1970. 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

Freezing nights

The nearest NOAA climate normals station, about 2 miles from Santa Cruz, averages 6 nights a year with a low at or below 32°F.

Ice, snow and broken limbs

Source: NOAA Climate Normals

If a tree is on a line

Call the electric utility first and treat the line as live. EIA lists one electric utility with service territory in Santa Cruz County: Pacific Gas & Electric Co..

A tree on a power line

Source: EIA-861, 2024