Emergency tree service in Mogul, NV

Mogul is one neighborhood, built in one generation. The Census counts about 470 homes on about a square mile and a half, and roughly four out of five of them went up between 1980 and 1999. The trees were planted in the same years, and they are all coming of age together.

At a glance

• Median home built 1985; about 80% of homes date from 1980 to 1999
• About 91% owner-occupied, about 92% single-family detached
• Gauge Reno 3.4 WSW: about 10.8 inches of precipitation a year
• About 52 minutes from our Carson City yard without traffic

Why do several trees on one street fail in the same storm?

Because they are the same age, often the same kind, planted the same way. A street of 40-year-old trees has 40-year-old weak points. When one wind is strong enough to find the flaw in one, it can find it in the others.

For an owner that is useful to know. If the house two doors down lost a tree like yours, have yours looked at. A certified arborist assesses every job of ours before work begins, and we have an ISA Certified Arborist on staff, WE-11728A. Arborist consultation in Mogul covers what a visit includes.

What 40 years of growth means over a roof

A tree planted beside a new house in 1985 was chosen for how it looked at six feet tall. Today its crown may reach over the roof, the driveway and the service line to the house. A limb failure at this size is enough to break rafters. The crew uses the 75-foot boom truck or the crane to take the weight off in controlled pieces, and nothing gets rolled off a roof.

Weather and fire records near Mogul

The gauge Reno 3.4 WSW, about 2.4 miles from Mogul, averages about 10.8 inches of precipitation a year, and the gauge Reno 1.4 NNE, under 7 miles away, averages about 33 inches of snow (NOAA 1991-2020 normals). FEMA's National Risk Index rates winter weather risk in Washoe County as Very High.

The 1996 Belli Ranch Fire, mapped at 6,724 acres, has its mapped center about 2 miles from Mogul. The Forest Service ranks Mogul's wildfire risk to homes higher than 95% of US communities, with about 10% of buildings in the direct exposure zone and the rest in the indirect zone.

A simple ownership picture

About 91% of Mogul homes are owner-occupied and about 92% are detached houses. In most cases the person who calls owns the tree and can approve the work. Mogul is unincorporated, and we have no Washoe County permit rule on record for removing a tree on private land. If the fallen tree came from next door, see a neighbor's tree fell on your property; an insurer or an attorney decides who pays.

From US Highway 50 to Mogul

Our yard is in Carson City. Mogul is about 43.7 miles away, about 52 minutes if nothing slows the road. Emergency service is offered at all hours. We never attach a clock to it, because storm calls are worked in order of danger, with existing clients first after a severe storm.