Danger tree assessment
Danger tree assessment Vancouver Island
Is it actually dangerous, or does it just look it?
What danger tree assessment involves
A danger tree assessment on Vancouver Island answers one question honestly: how likely is this tree to fail, and what would it hit. It is a structured risk assessment, not a sales visit, and it regularly ends with "leave it alone and look again in two years".
What is included
- Ground-level inspection of root plate, stem, union and crown
- Assessment of the target — what is under the tree and how often
- A likelihood-and-consequence risk rating you can act on
- Mitigation options short of removal, where any exist
- A short written summary you can give a neighbour, a strata or an insurer
Who it suits
Leaning trees, trees with fungal brackets at the base, a stand that has just lost a member, and any tree you have started avoiding parking under.
Worth knowing afterwards
Risk is not static. A tree assessed as low risk over a rarely-used corner of the garden becomes a different tree the year you put a child’s trampoline there.
Danger tree assessment
Questions about danger tree assessment
The signs worth phoning about are a fresh lean with soil lifting on one side, mushrooms or brackets at the base, a long vertical crack in the stem, dead limbs over something you use, and a top that has gone bare while the rest is green. None of them are proof, and all of them are worth a look.
Western red cedar across east Vancouver Island has been showing dieback — browning and thinning from the top down — after repeated dry summers. Some recover, some do not. An assessment tells you which of yours is which before you pay to remove anything.
Yes. Most assessments end that way. A company whose assessments always conclude "remove it" is not assessing anything.
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Get a price for danger tree assessment.
Send a photo and a postcode. We will tell you whether it is a job, a permit question, or something that can safely be left alone.
Quotes are free, and we come and look at the tree before we price it.