Tree removal in Palomino Valley and along the Pyramid Highway (89510)

ZIP 89510 covers about 597 square miles north of Spanish Springs and has about 1,450 residents. In country that open, a tree stands where someone planted it and kept it watered.

At a glance

• About 54 miles from our Carson City yard
• About 96% of homes in ZIP 89510 are owner-occupied
• About 9 inches of precipitation a year at the nearest station
• 2018 Perry Fire, mapped at 51,386 acres, within about 10 miles

What kinds of trees are removed out here?

Planted ones. The nearest NOAA normals station, Reno 22.2 NNE, averages about 9 inches of precipitation a year, which does not grow a shade tree on its own. Trees around a Palomino Valley home were put in as wind protection, shade or a screen, and they live on a well. When the water stops or the tree simply ages out, it dies standing.

A dead windbreak row is a different job from a single yard tree: several trees of the same age, close together, next to a house, a barn or a fence line.

How do you handle a job this far from the yard?

The estimate does the planning. The arborist looks at every tree you want gone, the access road, the gates and the ground, and lists the equipment. Then the crew comes once with all of it. If you also need stumps ground or brush cut back, put it on the same estimate. See stump grinding and lot clearing and brush mowing for this ZIP.

We make no promise about arrival times at this distance. Messages left with the office are returned within 8 hours.

Dead trees and range fire

Fires here run through grass and sagebrush and they run large. The 2018 Perry Fire is mapped at 51,386 acres and the 2017 Winnemucca Ranch Fire at 4,799 acres, both within about 10 miles. There is no community wildfire rating for this ZIP. Washoe County's risk to homes ranks higher than 97.2% of US counties (USDA Forest Service).

A row of dead trees beside the house is the heaviest fuel on many parcels. Taking it out, and clearing what is under it, is the core of defensible space in Palomino Valley.

Who lives here and what they ask

The American Community Survey shows about 96% of homes in the ZIP are owner-occupied and about 30% were built before 1980 (a small population, so the figures are rough). It also shows about 28% of households heat mainly with wood, the highest share in our service area. If you would like the wood from your own trees left for you, ask at the estimate so the arborist can write the job that way.

Access on unpaved roads

Chip trucks and dump trucks are heavy. Tell the office about washboard, soft shoulders, cattle guards and locked gates. After rain or snow, some roads will not carry a loaded truck, and the job may need to wait for the ground.