Tree service in Fallon and Hawthorne

These are desert towns with planted trees. Nothing here grows tall without water someone brought to it. We travel to both for removals and pruning.

How do Fallon and Hawthorne compare?

Fallon is about 75 minutes from the yard and Hawthorne about 2 hours 25 minutes, and Hawthorne has older homes, with about 83% built before 1980 against about 40% in Fallon. The table below compares county, elevation, climate and wildfire risk.

Climate figures are NOAA 1991-2020 normals from the Fallon Experiment Station and Hawthorne stations, each about a mile from the town centre. Housing figures are from the U.S. Census Bureau's ACS 2020-2024, rounded.

What is different about trees this far into the desert?

Water and heat. Fallon, at 3,965 feet, is the lowest town we serve, and both towns receive less than 5 inches of precipitation a year, about half of what Carson City gets. Average summer highs are 90.4 F at the Fallon station and 91.8 F at Hawthorne. Every shade tree in either town is an irrigated tree.

That shapes how they fail. A large shade tree that loses its water sheds limbs and dies back from the top, and the result is dead wood in a big crown over a house or a street. Read watering mature trees in the high desert and how to tell if a tree is dead or dying before you decide a tree is finished.

Why does Hawthorne have so many large old trees?

Because the town is old. About 83% of Hawthorne's homes were built before 1980 and nearly four in ten before 1960, the oldest housing stock of any town on our list (U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2020-2024). Trees planted with those houses can be sixty years old or more. In Fallon about 40% of homes predate 1980.

Old, large trees next to buildings are the work we are set up for: large tree removal, dead wooding and weight reduction, planned by a certified arborist.

Is wildfire a concern here?

Less than anywhere else we work, and we say so plainly. The USDA Forest Service ranks Fallon's risk to homes at the 31st percentile of US communities and Hawthorne's at the 52nd, against 98.5% for Carson City. No fire of 300 acres or more since 1980 is mapped within about 10 miles of Fallon. We do not build defensible space pages for these two towns. On rural parcels around Fallon, lot clearing and brush mowing is about access, fence lines and building, not fire.

How should you plan a job at this distance?

Send everything in one request, so one trip covers the whole property. The steps below show how the job goes from your call or form to the finished work.

1. Call 775.232.8243 or send the estimate form with photos of each tree. The form takes up to five.
2. List everything in one go: removals, pruning, stumps and brush. One trip that covers the whole property makes more sense than several.
3. The arborist reviews the job and you receive a free, detailed estimate tailored to your property.
4. The crew arrives with the equipment the plan calls for and removes the debris when the work is done.

Our 24-hour emergency line answers calls from anywhere. If a tree has come down, call 911 if anyone is hurt, stay away and call NV Energy if a line is involved, and then call us. We will tell you honestly what we can do from Carson City.