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Keep people, pets, vehicles, and workers away from hanging limbs, leaning trees, lifted roots, broken tops, wires, and blocked routes.
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Lewiston storm-damage guide
Storm damage can keep changing after the weather passes.
Wind, snow, ice, saturated soil, broken crowns, split trunks, uprooting, and loaded limbs can create hidden movement. Stay back and let qualified professionals evaluate the tree.
Professional planning
Four factors that shape the response
Document without approaching
From a safe place, record wide views, affected structures, access, utilities, storm timing, and visible changes for contractors and insurers.
Prioritize the response
Utilities, roads, occupied structures, emergency access, unstable sections, and changing weather may determine the sequence.
Separate emergency work from restoration
Clarify immediate hazard reduction, full removal, debris, stump work, roof or property work, and later landscape restoration.
Proposal checklist
Questions before authorizing work
- 1Is the site safe to enter, and who controls the danger area?
- 2Are utilities, public authorities, an insurer, or another trade involved first?
- 3What parts are unstable and how will the tree be secured or removed?
- 4What equipment, access, traffic control, rigging, and property protection are planned?
- 5Which emergency work, full removal, debris, logs, stump work, and cleanup are included?
- 6What documentation, insurance, price, payment, schedule, weather limits, and exclusions apply?
Request local help
Describe the hazard from a safe location.
We may connect an eligible request with an independent tree contractor. There is no obligation to hire.
Open the property request form →