Emergency Storm Tree Service in Little Rock, AR

Emergency storm tree service is the work nobody plans for: an oak across the roof after a line of storms, a pine snapped onto the driveway, ice-laden limbs hanging over the back door. Little Rock gets all of it. Spring brings severe thunderstorms and tornadoes, winter can bring ice and heavy wet snow, and both put trees on houses. You can call (501) 457-9035 any time to leave the details, and calls are worked in order of danger.

First, stay safe

Stay away from any tree touching a power line, and assume every downed line is live. Report it to Entergy at 800-368-3749 or through Entergy's outage tools. Do not climb onto a roof with a tree on it, and keep children and pets away from hanging limbs, which can drop without warning hours after a storm. If a tree has opened your roof or a wall, get everyone out of that part of the house.

What Little Rock storms have done

The March 31, 2023 EF3 tornado damaged more than 2,600 structures in Little Rock, with Walnut Valley the hardest hit, and the city's cleanup gathered about 130,000 cubic yards of trees and other organic debris. The ice storm that began on Christmas Day 2000 coated trees and lines across the city and left some homes without power for weeks, and the Christmas 2012 snowstorm dropped 10.3 inches on Little Rock. Each one left the same kinds of jobs: trees on roofs, trunks split partway, tops snapped out and hung in neighboring trees.

How a storm job is handled

A tree on a house is lifted off in pieces, not dragged. Weight is taken off a little at a time with ropes, a lift or sometimes a crane, so the roof does not take a second hit as the tree moves. Once the tree is off, the opening can be tarped. Trees under tension, such as a bent sapling under a fallen trunk or a root plate that lifted out of wet ground, are cut in a specific order because they can spring back hard.

Insurance and paperwork

Take photos of the tree and the damage before anything is moved. Most policies treat a tree that falls on a house, garage or fence differently from one that falls in open yard, so call your insurer early. We give you a written, itemized estimate and photos of the work for the claim. Entergy notes it does not pick up debris from storm damage, and the city's curbside pickup has size limits, so the quote says what happens to the wood.

Cracked but standing

After a big storm, the trees still standing deserve a look too. A crack at a fork, a hanger caught high in the crown, or soil heaved up on one side of the trunk can mean a second failure in the next storm. We can check those trees once the emergencies are cleared.