Tree Service Video Statistics

Key takeaways

1. Media, viral and repost channels posted 30.2% of YouTube's 460 most-viewed 'tree removal', 'tree felling' and 'arborist' videos and drew 41.3% of their views; tree service businesses posted 18.3% and drew 15.4%, or 9.9% without the one creator-run tree service that leads them (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
2. Videos of 60 seconds or less were 43.9% of that sample and drew 70.5% of its views. (Mark Studios) See details
3. The YouTube channels of four U.S. tree care companies (Davey, Bartlett, SavATree and Monster Tree Service) had 10,733 subscribers between them and a median of 66 views on the videos they posted in the past year; STIHL USA's channel alone had 10.4 times as many subscribers. (Mark Studios) See details
4. Of 168 local office pages we read from five tree service brands, 25.6% showed a video, nearly all of them Davey's (89.5% of its pages); 76.2% linked a YouTube channel and 0.0% offered an estimate by photo, video or a virtual meeting (our read, Nov 2026). (Mark Studios) See details
5. Employers reported 55,160 tree trimmer and pruner jobs in May 2025 at a median wage of $50,960; counting the self-employed, BLS put the occupation at 70,600 jobs in 2025, 24.4% of them self-employed. (BLS) See details
6. Florida employers reported 2,770 tree trimmer jobs in May 2025 at a median wage of $46,070; the Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach metro had 680 at a median of $48,540. (BLS) See details
7. 99 tree trimmers and pruners died from work injuries in 2024, up from 84 in 2023, and 39 of them were self-employed. BLS's 2024 death rate for grounds maintenance workers, the group that includes them, was 20.9 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers against 3.3 for all workers; logging's 110.4 was higher. (BLS) See details
8. Private-industry tree trimmers had 195.2 injury cases with days away from work per 10,000 full-time workers a year in 2023-2024, against 86.6 for all occupations, and were away a median of 24 days, against 8. (BLS) See details
9. We counted 619 tree-work Severe Injury Reports filed with OSHA from January 2015 to November 2025, 96 of them from Florida, the most of any state; chippers figured in 58.3% of the tree-work amputations (our count). (Mark Studios) See details
10. FEMA has obligated $26.2 billion for debris removal in disasters declared since 1998, 22.5% of it in Florida; Hurricane Helene alone accounts for $2.5 billion so far (our count of OpenFEMA data). (Mark Studios) See details
11. Falling trees caused 61 of Hurricane Helene's 65 direct wind deaths in the United States in September 2024. (NOAA National Hurricane Center) See details
12. ISA counted 38,825 Certified Arborists worldwide in 2025, and TCIA 593 accredited tree care businesses, branches included, in its 2024-25 year. (ISA, TCIA) See details
13. Florida has no state tree trimmer or arborist licence: a 2022 licensing bill died in committee, and local licences imposed without state authority expired on July 1, 2025. (Florida Legislature) See details
14. The popular "a mature tree adds 10% to 20% to a home's value" has no study behind it in the sources we traced; the measured studies found 3.5-4.5% for trees in 1978-80 sales in Athens, Georgia, and $8,870 per house for Portland street trees. (USDA Forest Service, Arbor Day Foundation) See details

Who posts the most-viewed tree removal, tree felling and arborist videos on YouTube?

Mostly not tree services. On November 4, 2026, media, viral-clip, compilation, repost and news channels posted 30.2% of the most-viewed YouTube videos for "tree removal", "tree felling" and "arborist" and drew 41.3% of their views, while tree service businesses posted 18.3% of the videos and drew 15.4% of the views (our count).

The sample is YouTube's own ranking on one day, not a census of tree videos. We asked the YouTube Data API for videos matching each of the three searches, sorted by view count, with no country or language filter, and read 4 pages of 50 results for each: 600 results, which held 460 different videos from 250 channels. We then sorted every channel by hand into five types from its title, its description and the titles of its videos in the sample (and the video descriptions where the channel had none). A tree service business is a channel that offers tree work and names a place or a phone; an arborist creator films or teaches tree work but sells no tree service through the channel.

Tree workers' own channels, tree businesses and arborist creators together, posted 39.8% of the 460 videos and drew 27.4% of the views (our count). The views are concentrated: the 5 channels with the most views drew 27.5% of all views in the sample (our count). The most-viewed video of all was a street-food clip of a dwarf coconut palm being cut for food, with 272.7 million views; that one clip is 36.8% of the views of the "other" channels, which drew 14.2% of all views without it (our count). One Spanish forestry company channel, Timberteamhdpm, drew 59.8% of the forestry, logging and equipment views; without it that type drew 4.5% of all views (our count). No single channel dominates the media type: its largest channel drew 9.4% of the media views (our count).

How many tree service businesses reach YouTube's most-viewed tree videos, and how many are in the U.S.?

Few, and one channel carries much of their views. 33 of the 250 channels in the November 4, 2026 sample were tree service businesses, and 15 of those named a U.S. place (our count). U.S. tree businesses that name a place posted 13.0% of the 460 videos and drew 8.2% of the views (our count).

One of them, Guilty of Treeson, the channel of an ISA Certified Arborist who runs a small tree service in Enumclaw, Washington, and also sells merchandise and climbing supplies, posted 34 of the 460 videos and drew 6.1% of the sample's views. That is 39.7% of all the views tree businesses drew (our count). Without that channel, tree service businesses drew 9.9% of the views, and the other 14 U.S. tree businesses that name a place posted 26 videos with 2.3% of the views (our count).

The evidence for some businesses is thin. 27 of the 84 tree-business videos came from channels whose only sign of a business is the channel name, a phone number in a title or a contact line with no place, some of them Indian tree cutters known only by a phone number (our count). Tree businesses post fewer short clips than the sample as a whole: 35.7% of their 84 videos ran 60 seconds or less (our count).

Does the answer change with the search term?

The mix shifts but the pattern holds: in each of the three searches on November 4, 2026, media, viral and repost channels posted more of the top 200 results than tree service businesses did (our count). Each search returned 200 results, but some videos appear twice in one list, so the lists hold 193, 199 and 182 different videos.

One channel again shapes the "arborist" list: Guilty of Treeson drew 23.8% of its views, and without it tree service businesses drew 8.2% of that list's views, against 30.1% with it (our count). The lists overlap: 98 of the 460 videos appear in two or more of them, and 16 in all three (our count).

How many views do the most-viewed tree videos get?

The median video in the November 4, 2026 sample had 1.3 million views, and 64 of the 460 had 10 million or more (our count). Together the 460 videos had 3.6 billion views (our count). The median video had 8.4 likes per 1,000 views (our count). View counts are YouTube's snapshots on the day of the read and include views from ads.

50.7% of the 460 videos came from channels that list the United States as their country, and they drew 51.5% of the views (our count), but a U.S. country setting on a repost or compilation channel says nothing about where the footage was filmed. 35 of the 250 channels had 1 million or more subscribers, and the median media, viral or repost channel had 142,500 subscribers, against 12,600 for the 33 tree service businesses (our count).

Are the most-viewed tree videos short?

Many are, and the short ones take most of the views. 43.9% of the 460 most-viewed tree videos on November 4, 2026 ran 60 seconds or less, and they drew 70.5% of the views (our count). The median length was 103 seconds. The median clip of 60 seconds or less had 1.7 million views, against 1.2 million for longer videos (our count).

Videos over 20 minutes were 99 of the 460 but drew only 7.2% of the views (our count). Most of the sample is recent: 68.3% of the 460 were published in 2024 or later, and 159 in the year before the search (our count).

No video in the sample carried YouTube's uploader-declared altered or synthetic content flag: 0 of the 460 had it in the API on November 4, 2026 (our count). One video description, from a repost channel, says its clip is an AI-generated fictional scene, so the flag is not a reliable count of AI footage.

How big are the YouTube channels of tree care companies, trade bodies and equipment makers?

Small next to the viral channels. Davey Tree's channel posted 175 videos in the year to November 3, 2026, with a median of 45 views each, and Bartlett Tree Experts' 31 videos had a median of 443 views (our count). The channels of four U.S. tree care companies, Davey Tree, Bartlett Tree Experts, SavATree and Monster Tree Service, had 10,733 subscribers between them, and the 220 videos they posted in that year had a median of 66 views (our count). STIHL USA's channel alone had 10.4 times as many subscribers as those four combined (our calculation).

We read these channels on November 3, 2026, a day before the search sample. We found each channel from a YouTube link on the organisation's own website where there was one, and otherwise by looking up likely handles; search was not available that day. 3 of the 15 organisations checked had no channel we could find: Asplundh, Wright Tree Service and the American Society of Consulting Arborists (our count). Only 1 of the 12 channels we read had a video among the 460 most-viewed tree videos of November 4: a Husqvarna USA felling how-to with 1.3 million views (our count). The 535 videos the 12 channels posted in the year had a median of 218 views (our count).

The tree companies post mostly longer videos: 14.1% of the videos the four posted in the year ran 60 seconds or less, against 57.4% for Husqvarna USA, STIHL USA and Vermeer (our count). Subscriber counts are YouTube's rounded snapshots; the equipment makers sell chainsaws, chippers and stump grinders to tree services and homeowners, and the software sellers sell to tree services.

What can't this YouTube sample show?

It shows what YouTube ranked highest by views for three English searches on one day, with no country filter. It does not show the default relevance-sorted results a viewer gets in the YouTube app; it does not count tree videos in general; and it says nothing about whether any video won a tree job. View counts are lifetime totals, so older videos have had longer to collect them, and they include views from ads. A channel's country is whatever the channel owner set. The channel types are our judgment from public text, and the calls with thin evidence are flagged in the channel file. The ranking also moves a little from day to day: a one-page read of "tree removal" the day before, archived with our files, overlaps most but not all of this read's top 50. The full lists are in youtube-videos.csv, youtube-channels.csv and youtube-brand-channels.csv.

Do tree service brands put video on their local office pages?

About one page in four, and almost all of them are Davey's. On November 3, 2026 we read 168 U.S. local office and location pages of five multi-location tree service brands in a headless browser, up to 40 per brand drawn at random from each brand's own sitemap listing, and 25.6% showed any video (our count). 25.6% embedded a player a visitor can start and 0.0% played a muted background video. 89.5% of Davey's residential local office pages embedded YouTube videos and 22.5% of SavATree's branch pages showed a video; no sampled Bartlett, Joshua Tree Experts or Arbor Masters page did (our count). 0 of the five brands' national homepages showed a video.

A brand's office pages are filled from one template, so most features are all or nothing within a brand, and the pooled shares mostly describe five templates, not choices made at each office. Davey and Bartlett are large company-run tree care firms; SavATree, Joshua Tree Experts and Arbor Masters run branch networks. The sampled pages were in 35 U.S. states (our count). 4 of the nine brands first considered could not be sampled: Monster Tree Service answered its second location page with a bot challenge, Arborwell now redirects to SavATree, and Ryan Lawn & Tree and Mr. Tree list no per-office pages.

Up to 40 location pages read per brand on November 3, 2026 (all 10 Arbor Masters pages; 38 Davey pages after two failed reads) (our count). A listed page is not proof of an open office. Text flags count the page's own body text, not sitewide menus; social, careers and booking links count anywhere on the page. A page that names TCIA accreditation or certified arborists is not proof of who works at that office. Per-page file: location-pages.csv.

What do tree service location pages show instead of video?

Credentials, storm work and a request form. In the same November 3, 2026 read, 100.0% of the pages named certified arborists or the International Society of Arboriculture, 48.2% named TCIA accreditation (every Bartlett page, nearly every Davey page and some Arbor Masters pages) and 83.9% mentioned 24/7, emergency or storm-damage tree service (our count). 76.2% linked to an estimate or consultation request and 50.0% offered a free estimate or consultation in the page body, every Davey and Joshua Tree Experts page among them. 24.4% carried a schedule or book button, almost all of them Joshua Tree Experts' "Schedule a Quote" button, which opens a request form rather than a calendar. 0.0% offered an estimate by photo, video or a virtual meeting, and 0.0% showed a dollar price (our count).

Services named on the page differ by brand. 54.2% mentioned plant health care, 32.1% stump grinding or removal, 4.2% crane work and 0.6% drones or aerial imagery; 6.0% used before-and-after wording, all of them Arbor Masters pages, and 7.1% mentioned financing (our count). Every page linked to careers or jobs (100.0%), to Facebook (100.0%) and to Instagram (100.0%); 76.2% linked to a YouTube channel, every page except Joshua Tree Experts' pages, and 0.0% to TikTok. 92.9% showed customer reviews, testimonials or a star rating in the page body (our count). The read covers the public location pages only: it says nothing about the video these brands post on YouTube or social platforms.

How many tree trimmers and pruners work in the United States?

Employers reported 55,160 wage-and-salary jobs for tree trimmers and pruners (SOC 37-3013) in May 2025 (BLS OEWS). That survey of employers leaves out the self-employed. The BLS Employment Projections count, which includes them, was 70,600 jobs in 2025 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook), and the household survey put the number of people whose main job is tree trimming at 101 thousand for 2025 (BLS CPS, Table 11). The three counts measure different things: jobs reported by employers, all jobs including the self-employed, and people as they describe their own work.

The workforce is almost all men and majority Hispanic. Women were 5.2 percent of employed tree trimmers in 2025 and Hispanic or Latino workers 53.8 percent (BLS CPS). BLS notes its 2025 household-survey averages cover 11 months, because no data were collected in October 2025 during the federal shutdown.

What do tree trimmers and pruners earn?

The median annual wage of U.S. tree trimmers and pruners was $50,960 in May 2025, or $24.50 an hour (BLS OEWS). The mean was $55,970 (BLS OEWS). One in ten earned less than $37,940 and one in ten more than $80,310 (BLS OEWS). These are wages of employees only.

Most tree trimmers work for firms classed as landscaping services: BLS's industry matrix puts 67.4 percent of the occupation's 2025 jobs there and 3.8 percent in local government (BLS National Employment Matrix). NAICS 561730 is shared with landscaping and lawn care, so it is not a count of tree companies. Utilities that hire line-clearance contractors do not show those crews in the utility row; they are counted in the contractor's industry.

How many tree trimmers are self-employed?

24.4 percent of U.S. tree trimmers and pruners were self-employed in 2025, against 5.8 percent of all workers (BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2). That is 17.2 thousand self-employed jobs (BLS National Employment Matrix). The Census Bureau counted 516,572 nonemployer landscaping-services businesses in the United States in 2023 and 48,313 in Florida (Census Nonemployer Statistics); that industry code is shared with landscaping and lawn care, so one-person tree services are only part of it.

How fast is tree trimmer employment growing?

BLS projects 73,600 tree trimmer and pruner jobs in 2035, a gain of 3,000, or 4 percent, from 2025 (BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook). Growth is a small part of hiring: BLS expects 7.9 thousand openings a year over 2025-35, mostly to replace workers who leave (BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.2). It projects 10.6 percent of the occupation to leave each year, against 9.7 percent for all occupations (BLS Employment Projections, Table 1.10). The typical entry requirement is a High school diploma or equivalent with short-term on-the-job training (BLS). The Occupational Outlook Handbook has no separate tree trimmer profile; it covers them under grounds maintenance workers.

How many tree trimmers work in Florida and South Florida, and what do they earn?

Florida employers reported 2,770 tree trimmer and pruner jobs in May 2025, with a median annual wage of $46,070 ($22.15 an hour) and a mean of $45,670 (BLS OEWS). Florida's location quotient was 0.79, so the occupation is a smaller share of jobs there than nationally (BLS OEWS).

BLS publishes no OEWS figures for the West Palm Beach or Fort Lauderdale metropolitan divisions, and it suppressed the Port St. Lucie employment estimate. At the county level, the Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns count landscaping-services establishments (NAICS 561730, shared with landscaping and lawn care, which includes tree services):

How much do landscaping firms bill for tree work?

Landscaping-services establishments took in $12,592,288 thousand (about $12.6 billion) from ornamental plant, shrub and tree services in 2022, by the Census Bureau's 2022 Economic Census (Census Economic Census, Industry by Products). That was 10.9 percent of the industry's receipts, and 47,572 establishments reported it (Census). The line also covers shrub and plant care, and it is the closest tree-specific product line the Census publishes for NAICS 561730, a code shared with landscaping and lawn care. Tree work billed by firms in other industries is not in it, and no Florida figure is published.

How many licensed tree experts and arborists do the licensing states count?

Maryland counted 1,359 Licensed Tree Experts at the end of 2024, the highest total in its annual reports to the General Assembly (Maryland DNR). The Department issued 92 new licences in fiscal 2025 (July 2024 to June 2025), and 12 of those new licensees passed the exam through its interpreter assistance program (Maryland DNR). The total rose by 183 from the 1,176 reported for the end of 2023 (our calculation), but that 2023 figure was itself below the 1,273 in the fiscal 2023 report (Maryland DNR); the reports do not explain the dip.

New Jersey's Board of Tree Experts licensee directory listed 921 active Licensed Tree Care Operators and 328 active Licensed Tree Experts on November 3, 2026, 1,249 active licences in all (our count). 76 of the active operator licences (8.3%) gave an address outside New Jersey. The directory also carried 275 suspended operator licences and 41 suspended expert licences, and 210 retired and 51 emeritus tree experts (our count).

Louisiana's Department of Agriculture and Forestry listed 780 arborist licences and 164 utility arborist licences on its November 2, 2026 lists (our count of list rows). East Baton Rouge Parish had the most, 109 of 780, and 35 were filed as out of state (our count). Rhode Island's Department of Environmental Management said that as of 2024 there were over 700 active licensed arborists in the state (RI DEM).

Connecticut licenses arborists as category 3D of its commercial pesticide supervisor certification. Its open licence data showed 2,462 active supervisor certifications on November 3, 2026, but it does not separate the arborist category, so that figure is only an upper bound (our count).

Across fiscal 2020 to 2025 Maryland issued 584 new tree expert licences (our calculation from the reports).

How many H-2B tree trimmer jobs did employers get certified?

Employers got 1,178 H-2B positions certified for tree trimmers and pruners (SOC 37-3013) in fiscal 2023, according to our count of the Department of Labor's OFLC disclosure data. That was 30.9% more than the 900 certified in fiscal 2020, though below the 1,277 of fiscal 2022 and above the 1,007 of fiscal 2021 (our count). These are labour certifications for seasonal jobs, not visas issued or workers who arrived. Employers requested 1,450 positions on all fiscal 2023 tree trimmer applications and got 81.2% of them certified.

The work is spread thin across many small employers: 35 distinct employers had applications certified in fiscal 2020 and 52 in fiscal 2023, with worksites in 26 states in fiscal 2022 (our count). Texas led every year from fiscal 2020 to 2023, peaking at 292 positions in fiscal 2021; in fiscal 2023 it had 252, ahead of Arkansas and Tennessee. Florida worksites took 9.3% of certified positions in fiscal 2020 and 5.8% in fiscal 2023 (our count).

The position-weighted mean offered hourly wage on certified tree trimmer applications was $18.94 in fiscal 2023, up from $17.63 in fiscal 2020; the median across applications was $18.69 (our calculation). The offered rate is the employer's starting rate on the application, a floor rather than average pay.

How big is the largest public tree care company?

The Davey Tree Expert Company reported revenues of $1,947,969 thousand for 2025 (about $1.95 billion) (Davey Tree 10-K). Davey is employee-owned and files with the SEC because it has many employee shareholders. Its Utility segment, which clears trees from power lines, brought in $1,067,171 thousand; its Residential and Commercial segment brought in $877,538 thousand (Davey Tree 10-K). Tree and plant care was the largest service type, at $1,146,117 thousand across both segments (Davey Tree 10-K).

Davey employed approximately 12,300 people at the end of 2025, 92% of them in the United States (Davey Tree 10-K). Its largest customer was Pacific Gas & Electric, at about $167 million or 9% of revenue (Davey Tree 10-K). It spent about $8.5 million buying businesses in 2025 (Davey Tree 10-K).

How much revenue does storm work bring a large tree company?

Davey Tree's storm damage services revenue was $63,855 thousand in 2025, down from $81,170 thousand in 2024, a year with Hurricanes Helene and Milton, and up from $25,172 thousand in 2023 (Davey Tree 10-K). Storm work is a small and uneven share of revenue: the company says storms can lift clean-up revenue but can also disrupt contracted work.

Davey does not report a separate advertising figure. Selling expenses in its Residential and Commercial business rose $19,414 thousand in 2025, which it attributes mainly to wages, advertising and office rent (Davey Tree 10-K). It also booked a one-time $34,500 thousand increase in reserves for large general liability and vehicle liability claims (Davey Tree 10-K).

What do utilities' annual reports say about tree trimming costs?

Utilities are the largest buyers of tree trimming, but their 10-Ks mostly report changes in vegetation management cost rather than a total budget, and none of the 10-Ks checked gives miles trimmed. In 2025 the figures included:

How many Monster Tree Service territories are open?

Monster Tree Service had 134 franchised territories in operation at the end of 2025, down from 247 at the start of 2023, according to Item 20 of its April 2026 franchise disclosure document filed in Minnesota (Monster Tree Service FDD). At December 31, 2025 there were 60 franchisees, operating 142 territories by the count in Item 19 (Monster Tree Service FDD). Franchisees reported systemwide gross revenue of $83,845,069 in 2025, down 1% from 2024 and below the 2022 peak (Monster Tree Service FDD).

The 142 territories open all year averaged $574,903 in gross revenue (median $549,358) (Monster Tree Service FDD). The 40 franchisees with a full-year profit and loss averaged $1,548,004 in gross revenue and an 18% EBITDA margin before owner pay (Monster Tree Service FDD). Under the 2026 document, franchisees pay a brand fund contribution of 1% of gross revenue, and 60% of 2025 brand fund spending went to national advertising and programs (Monster Tree Service FDD). They must also spend the greater of $2,000 a month or 5% of gross revenue on local marketing during the first three years (Monster Tree Service FDD). The franchisor estimates the initial investment at $335,040 to $489,775, a franchise cost rather than a price of tree work (Monster Tree Service FDD).

What does one tree care outlet's sales and closing rate look like?

Joshua Tree Experts, a Pennsylvania tree care franchisor, grew from no franchised outlets at the start of 2023 to 16 at the end of 2025 (Joshua Tree Experts FDD). Its company-owned outlet in eastern central Pennsylvania had gross sales of $7,053,682 in 2025 (Joshua Tree Experts FDD) and spent 5.3% of sales on advertising and marketing (Joshua Tree Experts FDD).

That outlet issued 6,447 proposals after on-site visits in 2025 and won 3,297, a closing rate of 51.1% (Joshua Tree Experts FDD). General tree care visits averaged $1,744 in sales (median $1,088) (Joshua Tree Experts FDD), and new customers were 19.8% of the 6,149 it served (Joshua Tree Experts FDD). These are one outlet's figures, reported by the franchisor and unaudited. Franchisees must spend at least $36,000 on local marketing in year one and 6.5% of sales after that (Joshua Tree Experts FDD); the estimated initial investment for one territory is $438,325 to $618,495 (Joshua Tree Experts FDD).

How often do SEC annual reports mention tree trimming and vegetation management?

48 Form 10-K annual reports filed in 2025 contained the phrase "vegetation management" (our count of EDGAR full-text search), and 77% of them came from electric, gas or water utilities. Only 13 contained "tree trimming". The utility term overtook the older one in 2005 and has stayed ahead: "tree trimming" peaked at 31 filings in 2007 and fell to 7 a year in 2016 and 2017 (our count).

Counts are distinct 10-K filings per filing year (2025 mostly means fiscal 2024 reports), not mentions, and the full year-by-year file is in our CSV. "Arborist" is rare in SEC filings: it peaked at 6 filings in 2013, mostly from equipment makers such as Blount and Terex, and in 2025 only one 10-K, from an engineering firm, used it (our count). Davey Tree's own 2025 10-K uses neither "arborist" nor "tree trimming". The 2025 "tree care" filers were Davey Tree, BrightView, equipment makers (Alamo Group, Terex, Toro) and three business development companies. Private tree companies such as Asplundh and Bartlett do not file 10-Ks, so they are not in these counts.

How many tree trimmers die on the job each year?

99 tree trimmers and pruners died from work injuries in the United States in 2024, up from 84 in 2023, by the BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (BLS CFOI). All U.S. workplaces recorded 5,070 fatal work injuries in 2024 (BLS CFOI). The CFOI counts every worker, including the self-employed, and 39 of the 2024 tree trimmer deaths were self-employed workers (BLS CFOI).

BLS does not publish an HTML fatal injury rate for tree trimmers alone. Its chart of selected occupations gives grounds maintenance workers, the group that includes tree trimmers, a rate of 20.9 deaths per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers in 2024, against 3.3 for all workers (BLS CFOI chart). Logging workers had the chart's highest rate, 110.4 (BLS CFOI chart), so tree work is among the most dangerous jobs by this measure but not the single most dangerous.

How often are tree trimmers injured badly enough to miss work?

Private-industry tree trimmers and pruners had 195.2 injury and illness cases involving days away from work per 10,000 full-time workers a year in 2023-2024, against 86.6 for all private-industry occupations, by the BLS Survey of Occupational Injuries and Illnesses (BLS SOII). Employers reported 1,620 such cases over the two years (BLS SOII). Injured tree trimmers were away a median of 24 days, against 8 days for all private-industry workers (BLS SOII). Counting job restriction and transfer as well, the rate was 432.9 cases per 10,000 full-time workers (BLS SOII). The survey covers employees only; self-employed tree workers are not in it.

How many tree workers are seriously hurt each year, by OSHA's own reports?

Employers filed about 56.8 tree-work Severe Injury Reports a year with OSHA in 2015-2024 (our count), and 51 in 2024. Across January 2015 to November 2025 we count 619 reports that describe tree work from employers coded to landscaping services (NAICS 561730, which tree services share with lawn care), forestry support, electric utilities and specialty trade contractors (our count). With no industry filter, 1,067 reports match the same tree-work wording (our count).

A Severe Injury Report is the notice an employer must send OSHA within 24 hours of a work-related inpatient hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. All employers covered by federal OSHA sent 9,034 of them in 2024 (OSHA). Tree work was 0.58% of all reports in 2015-2025 (our calculation). The file leaves out deaths and, largely, private employers in State Plan states such as California, Washington, Oregon, Michigan and North Carolina, so these counts are a floor. Of the tree-work reports, 590 involved a hospitalization and 48 an amputation (our count); 487 came from NAICS 561730 (our count).

How we counted: a report qualifies when its narrative names a tree together with a tree-work action (trimming, pruning, cutting, felling, removal, climbing, rigging, a chain saw, a bucket or a crane), or uses a term such as chipper, stump grinder, arborist or line clearance. In a hand check of 30 random matches, 96.7% described tree work (our check). The full rule and the counting script are published with the aggregate file, which holds counts only and no narratives.

Groups overlap: a chain-saw cut during a fall from a tree counts in both rows. Chippers stand out among amputations. They figure in 58.3% of the 48 tree-work amputation reports (our calculation).

How many tree-work severe injuries does Florida report?

Florida employers filed 96 tree-work Severe Injury Reports from January 2015 to November 2025, the most of any state, ahead of Pennsylvania and Texas (our count). They filed 9 in 2024 (our count). Florida's private employers fall under federal OSHA, so its count is complete for this file, while large State Plan states such as California are mostly missing from it. The ranking reflects coverage as well as risk.

How do tree care workers die?

Being struck by a tree or limb is the leading cause in every count. CDC counted 1,285 U.S. workers who died while doing tree care in 1992-2007, an average of 80 a year (CDC MMWR). Being struck by or against an object caused 42% of those deaths, falls to a lower level 34% and contact with electric current 14% (CDC MMWR). In 44% of the deaths the worker was trimming or pruning a tree (CDC MMWR). CDC built this count from the federal fatality census and NIOSH case files, across all industries, and says it could not compute a death rate because nobody knows how many people do tree care.

The trade body's newer count points the same way. The Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) found 243 tree care-related fatal occupational injuries in 2020-2023, or 61 a year (TCIA). TCIA staff collect these from news reports and OSHA fatality reports, so less newsworthy deaths are missed.

Of the fatal falls TCIA counted, 26 were falls from trees (TCIA). Among 14 tree care fall deaths NIOSH investigated in 1985-2007, four were falls of 35 to 50 feet when an aerial lift bucket broke (CDC MMWR).

Who are the tree workers who die?

Most worked for small firms. In CDC's 1992-2007 count, 57% of the workers who died doing tree care worked in establishments with 10 or fewer employees and 38% were self-employed (CDC MMWR). Half (50%) were tree trimmers or pruners by occupation (CDC MMWR), and in 2003-2007, 74% worked in the landscaping industry, which includes arborist and tree trimming services (CDC MMWR). Deaths at a private residence made up 44% (CDC MMWR). The Hispanic share of deaths rose from 12% in 1992 to 29% in 2007 (CDC MMWR).

What do NIOSH's fatality investigations show?

New workers and missing safety plans recur. A 2024 review of 93 NIOSH and state FACE (Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation) reports from 1987-2023 on landscaping and tree care deaths found that more than 66.0% of the fatal incidents involved tree care workers who had been on the job a year or less (Journal of Safety Research). Electrocutions from power lines were 18.3% of the deaths, falls from trees 16.1% and being caught or dragged into a wood chipper 12.9% (Journal of Safety Research). In 60.2% of the reports the employer had no written safety plan (Journal of Safety Research).

A separate case series of 69 NIOSH tree care death investigations over the same years found that only 39.1% of employers had given workers job training (Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene). FACE cases are chosen for investigation rather than counted as a census, and the review's authors say they are not a valid measure of how many workers die. NIOSH had completed 45 tree care investigations by 2007 (CDC MMWR).

How dangerous are wood chippers?

Chipper deaths are rarer than falls or struck-bys but keep happening. A New York State Department of Health study found 113 U.S. worker deaths tied to mobile hand-fed wood chippers in 1982-2016, most from being struck (57) or caught in the machine (41) (American Journal of Industrial Medicine). An earlier CDC count found 31 deaths attributable to mobile chippers in 1992-2002 (CDC MMWR), 68% of them from being caught or compressed by the chipper (CDC MMWR). CDC also put days-away injuries from working with chippers at an estimated 2,042 in 1992-2001 (CDC MMWR). All three counts cover every industry, not only tree services.

Is there a death rate for tree workers?

Only an estimate. TCIA puts the tree care fatality rate at 30.5 to 41.0 deaths per 100,000 full-time workers for 2020-2023 (TCIA). The rate rests on TCIA's own assumption of 150,000 to 200,000 full-time tree workers, because no official count of tree workers exists. CDC declined to compute a rate for the same reason.

How much public money pays for storm debris removal?

FEMA has obligated $26.2 billion in federal Public Assistance funding for debris removal (Category A) in disasters declared since 1998, across 90,551 funded projects, by our count of FEMA's OpenFEMA project data as of November 3, 2026. Category A pays state, local and tribal governments and some nonprofits to clear eligible debris; it covers rubble, sediment and wildfire ash as well as trees and limbs, so not every dollar is tree work. Excluding COVID-19 declarations, debris removal made up 13.7% of all Public Assistance obligations over the same declarations (our calculation); including them, 9.1%. Obligations change as projects are revised, and recent disasters are still being obligated.

Hurricanes account for 58.7% of debris removal dollars, though severe-storm declarations have more debris projects (our calculation). Severe ice storm declarations, which bring down trees and limbs across whole regions, account for $937 million (our count). Spending is concentrated: the 10 single-state declarations with the largest debris obligations hold 35.1% of all Category A dollars (our calculation). The largest single debris obligation is for the 2018 California wildfires, $1.5 billion (our count), and the largest for a hurricane is Irma in Florida in 2017, $1.1 billion (our count).

Debris removal was a large part of each of these storms' public money: Helene's debris obligations are 38.6% of its Public Assistance obligations so far and Irma's 44.3% (our calculation). Disasters declared in federal fiscal year 2024 carry $2.6 billion in debris obligations so far, and those declared in fiscal year 2025 carry $1.5 billion (our count).

How much of FEMA's debris money goes to Florida?

Florida accounts for 22.5% of FEMA's debris removal obligations since 1998, $5.9 billion across 10,388 projects, more than any other state (our calculation from OpenFEMA). Debris removal made up 34.3% of Public Assistance obligations in Florida disasters (excluding COVID-19), against 13.7% nationally (our calculation). Irma, Michael, Ian, Wilma and Milton are Florida's five largest debris declarations.

Which damaged trees will FEMA pay to remove?

Until September 2022, FEMA paid to remove an incident-damaged tree only if its trunk was 6 inches or more across at 4.5 feet above ground and it had a split trunk, a broken canopy or a lean greater than 30 degrees (FEMA PAPPG V4). Hanging limbs had to be 2 inches or more across at the break (FEMA PAPPG V4), and per-stump contract prices applied only to stumps 2 feet or more across, measured 2 feet above ground (FEMA PAPPG V4). A tree with 50 percent or more of its root-ball exposed could be removed with its root-ball; otherwise FEMA paid only for a flush cut (FEMA PAPPG V4).

A FEMA memo of September 6, 2022 eliminated those size tests for disasters declared from that date (FEMA memo, 2022). FEMA still requires applicants to keep documentation of each hazard's immediate threat, with its location and photograph or video documentation (FEMA memo, 2022).

How many storm deaths do falling trees cause?

Falling trees caused 61 of Hurricane Helene's 65 direct wind deaths in the United States in September 2024, by the National Hurricane Center's count (NHC Helene report). In Florida, four people were killed by falling trees during Hurricane Milton in October 2024 (NHC Milton report), and two died inland from falling trees during Hurricane Michael in 2018 (NHC Michael report). The NHC also reports at least $5.5 billion in agricultural and timber losses in Georgia from Helene, citing a Georgia state source (NHC Helene report).

How many urban trees are there in the U.S., and is canopy shrinking?

U.S. urban areas held an estimated 5.5 billion trees, with 39.4% tree cover, in the USDA Forest Service's 2018 estimate for 2010 (USDA Forest Service). Florida had the most of any state, an estimated 406.7 million (USDA Forest Service). These are modelled estimates built from aerial photo-interpretation and field plots, with wide standard errors.

Tree cover in urban and community areas fell from 42.9% to 42.2 percent between about 2009 and 2014 (USDA Forest Service), a loss of about 175,000 acres of tree cover a year, or about 36 million trees a year (USDA Forest Service). Florida lost a net 18,060 acres of urban and community tree cover a year, second only to Georgia (USDA Forest Service), and within Florida's urban areas 15,510 acres a year, the most of any state (USDA Forest Service). The Forest Service conservatively valued the lost benefits at $96 million a year (USDA Forest Service).

In the same estimate for 2010, the Forest Service models the annual value of U.S. urban trees at $18.3 billion from air pollution removal, energy savings, carbon sequestration and avoided emissions (USDA Forest Service), with Florida's the highest of any state at $1.9 billion (USDA Forest Service). Urban land is projected to grow to 163.1 million acres by 2060 (USDA Forest Service projection).

How many ISA Certified Arborists are there?

There were 38,825 ISA Certified Arborist credential holders worldwide in 2025, according to the International Society of Arboriculture's own annual report (ISA 2025 Annual Report). ISA is a certification and membership body, and it counts holders from its credentialing records. The figure was 40,048 in 2024 (ISA 2024 Annual Report) and 37,692 in 2023 (ISA 2023 Annual Report). ISA switched to a new credentialing management system in 2025, so the drop from 2024 may partly reflect the new records rather than fewer arborists. ISA does not publish a U.S.-only count. Its regional split counts all certifications held, not people: 44,212 in North America in 2024 (ISA), against 47,615 in 2023 (ISA). Across every credential, ISA said in 2023 it had conferred almost 57,000 credentials worldwide (ISA).

The top credential is rare. ISA says fewer than two percent of ISA Certified Arborists hold the Board Certified Master Arborist credential (ISA). ISA received 5,775 credential applications in 2025 (ISA) and administered 8,461 exams in 2024 (ISA). Membership is separate from certification: ISA had 24,647 members in 2025 (ISA), down from 25,140 in 2024 (ISA), spread across 73 countries and 72 chapters, associate organizations and affiliates (ISA).

The public does look the credential up. ISA's Find an Arborist directory of credential holders had over two million visits in 2025 and is ISA's most visited site, by ISA's own count (ISA).

What does it take to become an ISA Certified Arborist?

At least three years of full-time experience in arboriculture, or a mix of education and experience, under ISA's current program guide (ISA Certified Arborist Program Guide). ISA counts one year of full-time work as about 1,795 hours (ISA). The written exam has 200 multiple-choice questions and a 3.5-hour limit (ISA), and holders must earn 30 continuing education units every three years or retake the exam (ISA). The climbing credential asks for hands-on time: Eighteen months of climbing experience plus current aerial rescue, CPR and first aid training (ISA). The Utility Specialist credential requires 2,000 hours of utility vegetation work over two years, or the equivalent in full-time months (ISA). TRAQ holders retrain and retest every seven years (ISA).

Video is part of ISA's paid exam preparation. Its Introduction to Arboriculture series is a 25-course online package with photos, drawings and videos (ISA). ISA does not publish how many people use it.

How many tree care companies are TCIA Accredited?

593 accredited tree care businesses, branches included, at the end of the Tree Care Industry Association's 2024-25 fiscal year (Sept. 2024 to Aug. 2025), after 13 new accreditations (TCIA Annual Report FY2024-25). TCIA is the U.S. trade association for tree care companies and runs the accreditation program, so these are its own program counts. A year earlier TCIA reported a record 600 accredited locations (TCIA Annual Report FY2023-24), serving more than 1.34 million active clients (TCIA); TCIA does not say how it counted clients. TCIA had 1,408 tree care company members in 2024-25 (TCIA).

TCIA's safety credential is larger. There were 3,152 Certified Treecare Safety Professionals (CTSPs) in 2024-25 after 565 new ones that year (TCIA), and 807 TCIA member companies plus 405 non-members employed at least one (TCIA).

How are tree workers trained and recruited online?

Through company training portals and job boards, by TCIA's 2024-25 counts. Tree care companies ran 434 TCIA Tree Care Academy Training Hubs (TCIA), and employees logged 21,714 online course enrollments, 30% more than the year before (TCIA). On the hiring side, TCIA's Outside Careers board carried 5,893 job postings (TCIA), and TCIA says its Career Center helped companies fill nearly 600 jobs (TCIA). Postings are not hires, and TCIA does not publish how fills were counted.

Who does the work has changed slowly, and the data is old. The last national count found here is a study published in 2002 in ISA's journal: among U.S. urban forestry professionals in ISA and the Society of American Foresters, 10% were women (Journal of Arboriculture). No newer national count of women among U.S. arborists was found.

What do tree service software vendors report about estimates and jobs?

The most detailed tree-specific vendor benchmark with a published base is old. SingleOps, which sells business software to tree and landscaping companies, reported from its own customers' records in the U.S. and Canada that tree care proposals were accepted 50% of the time in 2020 (SingleOps), after acceptance fell 14% from 2019 (SingleOps). Its 2020 base across all segments was 706,612 jobs proposed. Average revenue per tree job was $1,818 (SingleOps). Commercial jobs averaged $4,620 against $1,369 for residential (SingleOps), and residential proposals were accepted 49% of the time against 61% for commercial (SingleOps). Payment came in 7 days on average, which SingleOps links to digital and touchless payment (SingleOps). SingleOps says its users are not the whole industry. No vendor found here publishes photo- or video-estimate conversion rates with a sample and period.

Where do Google ads and drones fit in?

Google lists Tree services among the U.S. home service categories eligible for Local Services Ads, where a business pays per lead rather than per click (Google). Google does not publish how many tree services advertise this way.

Drone use in tree work is still mostly a research topic. A 2025 systematic review in Arboriculture & Urban Forestry found only 27 peer-reviewed articles on drones in tree risk assessment and called the field nascent (Arboriculture & Urban Forestry). No public source found here measures how many U.S. tree services use drones.

Is there an OSHA safety standard for tree care?

No. The Labor Department's regulatory agenda published in August 2026 says there is no OSHA standard for tree care operations and that the agency applies a patchwork of general industry rules instead; the rulemaking began with an advance notice in September 2008 after an industry petition (DOL Unified Agenda). That agenda targets a proposed Tree Care Standard (RIN 1218-AD04) for October 2026; none had been published by November 3, 2026 (DOL Unified Agenda).

The target keeps moving. Earlier editions of the same agenda entry aimed for April 2022 (Spring 2021 agenda), December 2023 (Spring 2023 agenda), December 2024 (Spring 2024 agenda) and April 2026 (Spring 2025 agenda). Agenda dates are agency targets, not commitments.

The record so far: the Tree Care Industry Association, the trade body, petitioned OSHA on May 10, 2006 for a standard based on ANSI Z133.1-2006 (OSHA, 73 FR 54118). OSHA's advance notice asked for comments by December 17, 2008 (OSHA, 73 FR 54118). It held a stakeholder meeting on July 13, 2016 (OSHA, 81 FR 38117) and a small-business review panel in spring 2020 that met in four public teleconferences (OSHA). For that review, a small local government was one with fewer than 50,000 residents, since city and county tree crews would be covered too (OSHA). OSHA said in 2008 that its logging standard, 29 CFR 1910.266, covers only limited kinds of tree removal (OSHA).

What fatality figures did OSHA cite when it opened the tree care rulemaking?

OSHA's 2008 notice cited Bureau of Labor Statistics data showing 637 worker deaths in the ornamental shrub and tree services industry (SIC 0783) from 1992 to 2002, about 58 a year (OSHA, 73 FR 54118). These are historical figures for an old industry code that also covers shrub work; current fatality counts appear in the safety section of this page.

• Falls, struck-by-falling-object deaths and electrocutions made up 75.6 percent of those deaths (OSHA).
• Deaths reached 70 in 2002, almost double the 36 in 1992 (OSHA).
• Hispanic workers were 24 percent of the industry's deaths in 2002, up from 11 percent in 1992, against 15 percent across private industry (OSHA).
• OSHA's own inspection records held 20 chipper deaths from 1998 to 2007; 70 percent were workers pulled into the machine (OSHA).
• The industry's 2002 injury rate was 7.6 cases per 100 full-time workers, against 5.3 for private industry (OSHA).
• OSHA counted 41,000 tree trimmers and pruners in 2006 when it planned how to profile the industry (OSHA).

What rules apply to tree trimming near power lines?

OSHA's power line standard, 29 CFR 1910.269, defines line-clearance tree trimming as work within 10 feet of lines up to 50 kilovolts to ground, plus 4 inches for each 10 kV above that, when done for the organization that runs the lines (eCFR, 29 CFR 1910.269). A second trained trimmer must be within voice range when a trimmer will come closer than 10 feet to a conductor above 750 volts (eCFR). On a 5.1 to 15 kV distribution line, the minimum approach distance for phase-to-ground exposure is 2.14 feet (eCFR, Table R-6).

The same section sets equipment rules for these crews. A chain saw heavier than 15 pounds used in a tree must hang from a separate line, with exceptions for aerial lifts and topping (eCFR). Climbing ropes need a breaking strength of at least 2,300 pounds (eCFR). A crew of trimmers who are not qualified electrical workers may keep one first-aid-trained person on site if new hires are trained within 3 months (eCFR).

For the high-voltage grid, NERC's vegetation standard FAC-003, approved by FERC in Order No. 777 in 2013, covers overhead transmission lines of 200 kV or more, plus some critical lower-voltage lines (FERC, 78 FR 18817). In Florida, each investor-owned utility must file a 10-year storm protection plan that includes vegetation management, defined to include tree trimming and removal, and update it at least every 3 years (Fla. Stat. 366.96). The Legislature found that a majority of outages in extreme weather are caused by wind-blown vegetation, a finding with no outage data cited (Fla. Stat. 366.96).

Can a Florida city or county require a permit to remove a tree?

Not for a documented high-risk tree on a single-family lot. Since July 1, 2019, Florida law has barred local governments from requiring a permit, fee, mitigation or replanting when an ISA certified arborist or a Florida licensed landscape architect documents the danger (Florida Senate, HB 1159). A 2022 amendment, effective July 1, 2022, tightened the test (Florida Senate, SB 518). The tree must now pose an unacceptable risk, meaning removal is the only practical way to bring its risk below moderate under ISA's Tree Risk Assessment guide, Second Edition (2017) (Fla. Stat. 163.045).

Outside that exemption, county rules differ:

• Miami-Dade County requires a removal or relocation permit for any tree not exempt under its code and treats trunks of 18 inches or more in diameter at breast height as specimen trees (Miami-Dade County).
• Unincorporated Palm Beach County needs no removal permit on a lot with an existing single-family home if the lot keeps the minimum vegetation in ULDC Table 7.C.3.A; vacant, commercial and multifamily lots need one (Palm Beach County Zoning). Pruning must follow ANSI A300, and topping is banned (Palm Beach County Zoning).
• Martin County says permission is not typically required to remove trees on single-family lots in its unincorporated area, outside preservation areas (Martin County).

Broward County's tree removal and tree trimmer pages were not read: broward.org's robots.txt disallows AI agents.

Does Florida license tree trimmers or arborists?

No. A 2022 bill to create a Florida arborist and tree care licence with a state Board of Tree Experts died in committee on March 14, 2022 (Florida Senate, SB 1448). Local licences are also on their way out: Florida preempts occupational licensing to the state, and county or city licences imposed before 2021 without authority in general law expired on July 1, 2025 (Fla. Stat. 163.211). ISA certification remains voluntary in Florida, though s. 163.045 gives a certified arborist's risk assessment legal weight.

Which states license arborists and tree workers?

Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Louisiana and Rhode Island license arborists or tree experts by statute, and California licenses tree service contractors. Connecticut is typical of the strictest: no one may advertise or contract to do arboriculture without a licence, and the exam application costs $200 (Conn. Gen. Stat. 23-61b). Its licence costs $285 for five years (Conn. Gen. Stat. 23-61b), and unlicensed work carries a civil penalty of $1,000 to $2,500 a day (Conn. Gen. Stat. 23-61f). Since 2013 each arborist business also registers for $240 a year and must employ a licensed arborist at every location (Conn. Gen. Stat. 23-61h).

Maryland's tree expert law exempts work on trees 20 feet tall or less (Md. Nat. Res. 5-415). A licence needs an exam, insurance, and either college study plus a year of experience or 3 years of practice under a licensed tree expert (Md. Nat. Res. 5-418), with renewal fees capped at $100 (Md. Nat. Res. 5-419). New Jersey requires every tree care business to register, keep a licensed tree expert or tree care operator at each location and carry at least $1,000,000 in liability insurance (NJ Board of Tree Experts); an amendment in January 2026 let its board fine violators and take them to municipal court (NJ Board of Tree Experts).

Louisiana lets the state issue a $150 temporary arborist licence for 90 days after a declared catastrophe to arborists licensed elsewhere or ISA certified (La. R.S. 3:3816), and exempts homeowner-directed pruning of branches 2 inches or less within 10 feet of the ground (La. R.S. 3:3816). Rhode Island has licensed arborists since 1928, with fines of up to $1,000 (R.I. Gen. Laws 2-19-5). California closed its D-49 tree service licence to new applicants after December 31, 2023 in favor of the C-49 Tree and Palm licence, which requires a trade exam (CSLB). Since 2025, unlicensed people there may only take jobs under $1,000 that need no permit and no employees (CSLB).

What rules apply to drone footage of tree jobs?

Filming a job for a business is a commercial flight under FAA Part 107: the pilot needs a remote pilot certificate, and the drone may fly no higher than 400 feet above ground unless it stays within 400 feet of a structure (eCFR, 14 CFR 107.51). The FAA counted 493,396 certificated remote pilots at the end of 2025 across all industries and forecasts 628,600 by 2030 (FAA Aerospace Forecast).

What consumer rules apply to storm clean-up and seasonal crews?

The FTC's Cooling-Off Rule gives buyers three business days to cancel a sale made at their home for $25 or more, or $130 or more at other temporary locations (eCFR, 16 CFR 429). In a Florida declared emergency, a price for goods or services needed because of the emergency is presumed unconscionable if it grossly exceeds the average in the 30 days before the declaration (Fla. Stat. 501.160).

Seasonal tree crews that hire abroad use the H-2B visa, which is capped by statute at 66,000 a fiscal year for all industries (DHS and DOL, Federal Register). For fiscal year 2026 the government authorized up to 64,716 more visas for employers attesting to irreparable harm (DHS and DOL).

What do the popular tree service numbers really say?

Six numbers that tree service marketing repeats trace back to narrower sources, or to none we could find: one-city house-price studies, a single vendor's client tests, a trade magazine's estimate built on an uncertain worker count, a 2004 list of quotations, a market-research model that keeps changing, and a dollar range with no source. Each claim below gives where the number came from, how it changed, and what to use instead.

"A mature tree adds 10% to 20% to a home's value"

Where it came from. The measured figures come from hedonic house-price studies, which compare sale prices after controlling for house and lot features. In Athens, Georgia, Anderson and Cordell matched 844 single-family sales from 1978 to 1980 to listing photos and found that landscaping with trees was associated with a 3.5-4.5% higher sales price (published 1988) (USDA Forest Service). In Portland, Oregon, Donovan and Butry estimated that street trees fronting a house added $8,870 to its sales price and cut time on market by 1.7 days (2010), about 3.0% of the median price (USDA Forest Service). They valued the shorter time on market at $88 and called it economically irrelevant (USDA Forest Service). Kathleen Wolf's 2007 review for the University of Washington summed up the published studies as 3% to 15% for larger yard and street trees (University of Washington).

How it changed. The Arbor Day Foundation's 2004 tree benefits page quoted Management Information Services/ICMA saying that landscaping, especially with trees, can raise property values by as much as 20 percent. The same page quoted a writer, Dr. Lowell Ponte, at 6 or 7 percent. Neither quote named a study (Arbor Day Foundation, 2004 capture). The same figure for landscaping in general is older: our landscaping page traces it to a newspaper column quoting real estate brokers. In 2014 a California consulting arborist firm attributed "about 10 percent" to the USDA Forest Service and "up to 20 percent" to ICMA, linking to the Arbor Day page (Green Arborists). The Arbor Day Foundation's current page puts the Portland result at $7,130 per house (Arbor Day Foundation), not the $8,870 in the published paper.

What to use instead. Cite one study with its city, years and the kind of tree it measured: roughly 3% to 4.5% for front-yard trees in 1978-1980 Athens, or about 3% for street trees in Portland. A 10% or 20% figure for one mature tree has no study behind it in these sources. For what homeowners recover on tree care at resale, the National Association of REALTORS and NALP 2023 estimate is on our landscaping page.

"A mature tree is worth $1,000 to $10,000"

Where it came from. Tree service and consumer sites attribute this range to the CTLA, the U.S. council of tree appraisers. The CTLA publishes an appraisal method, the Guide for Plant Appraisal, which values each tree by formula (size, species, condition and location). It does not publish a fixed dollar range. In 2014 Green Arborists wrote that the CTLA estimates one mature, healthy tree adds "up to 10,000 dollars" to a property (Green Arborists). A tree value site now gives the range as $1,000 to $10,000 with no source (8 Billion Trees). We did not find the range in a CTLA publication. Our search did not cover the CTLA's archived pages or the trade press of that era, so the range is unsupported, not proven to have no source.

What to use instead. An appraisal of the specific tree by a credentialed consulting arborist using the CTLA method. A typical-value range describes no tree in particular.

"Tree work is the most dangerous job: tree trimmers die at 30 times the national rate"

Where it came from. Tree work is among the deadliest civilian jobs, but the "30 times" multiple depends on a shaky denominator. In April 2023 TCI Magazine, published by the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA), wrote that a BLS preliminary estimate put the rate at 110 deaths per 100,000 tree trimmers and pruners, "about 30 times" the all-industry average. That estimate rests on about 63,700 workers, a count the author called "probably a significant underestimate" (TCI Magazine). In the same article, all grounds maintenance workers, which include tree workers, came to about 17 per 100,000 full-time equivalent workers (TCI Magazine). In April 2024 TCIA divided its own count of tree care deaths by an assumed 150,000 to 200,000 full-time workers and got 30.5 to 41.0 per 100,000, "as much as 11 times" the all-industry average (TCI Magazine).

How it changed. An older BLS article from July 2005 had no rate for tree workers. It counted 637 deaths in the ornamental shrub and tree services industry over 1992-2002, about 58 a year (BLS, 2005 capture). From 2003 BLS could only rate the broader landscaping services industry (NAICS 561730, which includes landscaping and lawn care): 14.1 deaths per 100,000 employed workers in 2003, against 4.0 for all workers (BLS). By 2023 an occupational health provider was attributing "a fatality rate 30 times higher" to OSHA (Concentra). In July 2026 a tree-service software seller was still repeating TCIA's 110 per 100,000 figure (ArboStar).

What to use instead. The current BLS Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries death count and rate for tree trimmers and pruners (SOC 37-3013), set against the rate for all workers in the same year. The workforce section of this page gives those figures. "Most dangerous" is wrong as a ranking: TCI Magazine itself notes that logging has a higher rate.

"Video lifts conversions 80%"

Where it came from. The trail starts with EyeView, which made and tested videos for its clients. A blog post of December 4, 2008 said visitors to eToro's site who viewed EyeView's video were 20% more likely to download the product. That compared viewers with non-viewers, who chose for themselves whether to watch (EyeView, 2009 capture). The first 80% figure we found is in a post of February 10, 2009, which said viewers of EyeView's videos for UMOO were 80% more likely to become depositing users, the same kind of comparison (EyeView). In November 2009 a TutorVista manager said the first test on one landing page "boosted conversion by over 80 percent" (EyeView). EyeView's case study gave that one A/B test, with the video autoplaying for first-time visitors, as an 86 percent increase (EyeView).

How it changed. EyeView's 2010 white paper said that "in some cases" the boost was over 80%. It reported the eToro split test, earlier told as 20%, as almost 32 percent (EyeView white paper). By August 2010 Unbounce, a landing-page software seller, wrote that "a study by eyeviewdigital.com shows that using video on landing pages can increase conversion by 80%" (Unbounce, 2010 capture). That dropped "in some cases" and the single-client scope. We found no version aimed at tree services that we could quote.

What to use instead. Unbounce's own August 2021 look at about 35,000 customer landing pages in each of three periods from late 2020 to early 2021 found very little difference in form-fill conversion rates between pages with and without video. In most industries, video correlated with neutral or worse results (Unbounce). A tree service that wants a number should test its own page.

"The U.S. tree care industry is worth $39.5 billion"

Where it came from. The figure is IBISWorld's modelled estimate for its Tree Trimming Services industry. The full report is paywalled, and only the headline estimate is public. In June 2025 IBISWorld's page put the 2025 market at $37.1bn (IBISWorld, June 2025 capture). By November 2025 the same page said $39.5bn (IBISWorld, November 2025 capture). The page now says $26.0bn for 2026 (IBISWorld).

How it changed. Brokers and blogs kept the earlier figure. In 2026 a business broker still cited $39.5 billion for 2025 (CT Acquisitions), after IBISWorld's own page had moved to $26.0bn for 2026.

What to use instead. Census and BLS counts of tree trimmers and the landscaping services industry, given elsewhere on this page with their scope. If an IBISWorld figure is quoted, give its edition date and say it is a modelled estimate.

"Trees cut air-conditioning needs by 30%"

Where it came from. The Arbor Day Foundation's 2004 tree benefits page quoted the USDA Forest Service: trees properly placed around buildings "can reduce air conditioning needs by 30 percent". The page named no study, city or building type (Arbor Day Foundation, 2004 capture). The Foundation's current page gives the same 30% with no attribution (Arbor Day Foundation).

What to use instead. A cooling-savings estimate for a named city and house type from a published shade study, with its year. One figure for all buildings has no study behind it in these sources.

Every popular claim our research pages trace, 716 in all, is on one page: popular video statistics, fact-checked.

How we built this page

We started from the questions people search for about tree service video statistics and looked for the organization that actually produced each answer. Every figure on this page sits in an evidence ledger with its source, the exact table or paragraph it came from, the measurement period, the population measured, and the date we checked it. This edition holds 520 figures from 49 publishers.

On November 4, 2026, each sourced figure on this page was re-fetched with the fetch cache cleared and matched against the recorded wording: BLS occupation wage estimates (through the BLS data API), Employment Projections, the Current Population Survey and fatal and nonfatal injury data; Census County Business Patterns, Nonemployer Statistics and the 2022 Economic Census (through the Census data API); CDC and NIOSH reports and peer-reviewed safety studies; OSHA’s rulemaking record, the Labor Department’s regulatory agendas and eCFR; FEMA’s debris policy, NOAA National Hurricane Center storm reports and USDA Forest Service urban tree studies; the 10-K filings of Davey Tree, PG&E, AEP, Entergy, FirstEnergy, OGE Energy, DTE and Cleco; franchise disclosure documents in Minnesota’s public CARDS database; ISA and TCIA annual reports and program pages, SingleOps and Google; the tree and licensing statutes of Florida, Connecticut, Maryland, New Jersey, Louisiana, Rhode Island and California and the tree rules of Miami-Dade, Palm Beach and Martin counties; and the pages behind each popular claim. Where a site refuses automated requests we read an Internet Archive copy. Our injury counts come from OSHA’s Severe Injury Reports file, our debris totals from OpenFEMA’s Public Assistance project data, our licence counts from the New Jersey, Louisiana and Connecticut licence lists, our H-2B counts from the Labor Department’s disclosure files, our location-page figures from pages we read one at a time, our 10-K phrase counts from EDGAR full-text search, and our YouTube figures from the YouTube Data API. We left out PacifiCorp’s vegetation figures (our fetcher could not read the filing), Monster Tree Service’s location pages (a bot challenge), broward.org, Municode, nerc.com and wrighttree.com (robots.txt blocks AI agents), OSHA’s fatality inspection search (robots.txt disallows it), CPSC’s injury surveillance data (cpsc.gov refuses automated requests), the NIOSH FACE database (its pages answer 404), and trade-press relays of BLS rates, which appear only where we trace a popular claim.

We only cite the producer: government agencies, regulators, company filings and official posts, and the survey owner's own report. We do not cite statistics roundups, Statista-style aggregators, or salary sites without a public method. We did not bypass paywalls or sign-up forms; where a full report was gated, we used only the figures its publisher states publicly.

Figures marked "our calculation" are arithmetic on the cited numbers, and anyone can reproduce them:

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Limitations

• Our YouTube read follows YouTube's ranking. The 460 videos are what YouTube's search returned for 'tree removal', 'tree felling' and 'arborist' (the top 200 of each, sorted by views, with no country filter) on November 4, 2026. It is not a census of tree video, counts are snapshots that include views from ads, and we classified 250 channels by hand from their public text; one creator-run tree service draws 39.7% of the tree-business views, so we give that class with and without it.
• Location pages are templated. Within a brand most features are set by its page template, so our location-page shares describe five brands' templates, not what independent tree services choose; Davey alone accounts for nearly all the video.
• The industry code is shared. Most tree services file under landscaping services (NAICS 561730), with lawn care and landscapers, so Census business counts and the shrub, plant and tree services product line are context, not counts of tree companies. The occupation code (SOC 37-3013) is clean, but BLS's payroll survey leaves out the self-employed, Employment Projections adds them and the household survey counts people by main job.
• OSHA's severe injury file is a floor. It holds employer reports of hospitalizations, amputations and eye losses, not deaths, and largely leaves out private employers in State Plan states such as California and Washington. Our tree-work rule reads the report narratives; a hand check found 29 of 30 sampled matches were tree work.
• Trade bodies count their own programs. ISA and TCIA report their own credential, accreditation and training counts; TCIA's fatality count comes from news and OSHA reports and its rate rests on an assumed workforce. NIOSH FACE cases are chosen for investigation, not a census.
• FEMA debris money is not all tree work. Category A also pays for rubble, sediment and wildfire ash, and obligations change as projects are revised. Licence counts come from five states with different licences, and H-2B figures are certified positions, not workers who arrived.

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120. Connecticut General Assembly (General Statutes, chapter 451), Connecticut General Statutes, Chapter 451 Forest Lands, Trees and Arboriculture (secs. 23-61a to 23-61m) (undated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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122. Maryland General Assembly (Annotated Code, Natural Resources Article), Maryland Code, Natural Resources s. 5-418 (licence qualifications) (undated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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124. New Jersey Board of Tree Experts (Department of Environmental Protection), Regulatory Bulletin: Notice of New Enforcement Framework (April 2026) (2026-04). Accessed 2026-11-03.
125. Louisiana State Legislature (Revised Statutes), Louisiana R.S. 3:3816 Special provisions (undated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
126. Rhode Island General Assembly (General Laws), R.I. Gen. Laws s. 2-19-5 Penalty for violations (undated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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128. Contractors State License Board (California), CSLB #24-07: License Requirement for Minor Work Increases from $500 to $1,000 (2024-12-31). Accessed 2026-11-03.
129. Office of the Federal Register (eCFR), 14 CFR 107.51 (FAA), 14 CFR 107.51 Operating limitations for small unmanned aircraft (undated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
130. Federal Aviation Administration, FAA Aerospace Forecast Fiscal Years 2026-2046: Emerging Aviation Entrants (UAS and AAM) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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132. The Florida Legislature (Online Sunshine), The 2026 Florida Statutes, s. 501.160 Rental or sale of essential commodities during a declared state of emergency (undated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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135. Landscape and Urban Planning (Donovan and Butry, USDA Forest Service), Trees in the city: Valuing street trees in Portland, Oregon (2010). Accessed 2026-11-03.
136. University of Washington, Green Cities: Good Health (Kathleen Wolf), Green Cities: Good Health - Economics fact sheet (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
137. Arbor Day Foundation (nonprofit; repeater), Benefits of Trees (2004). Accessed 2026-11-03.
138. Green Arborists (consulting arborist firm; repeater), Vertical Value: Trees Raise Property Values (2014-12-15). Accessed 2026-11-03.
139. Arbor Day Foundation (nonprofit; repeater), Trees increase our property values (arborday.org/value) (2026). Accessed 2026-11-03.
140. 8 Billion Trees (consumer site; repeater), Tree Value Calculator (Not stated). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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142. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (William J. Wiatrowski, Compensation and Working Conditions), Fatalities in the Ornamental Shrub and Tree Services Industry (2005-07-26). Accessed 2026-11-03.
143. Concentra (occupational health services seller; repeater), Tree-Trimming Demand is High - So is the Need for Better Safety (2023). Accessed 2026-11-03.
144. ArboStar (tree-service software seller; repeater), Is Arborist a Dangerous Job? What the Data Shows and How Professionals Manage the Risk (2026-07-07). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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146. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), UMOO - a prime beef example of EyeView's success (2009-02-10). Accessed 2026-11-03.
147. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Another Video Conversion Success Story (2009-11-10). Accessed 2026-11-03.
148. EyeView Digital (video production and testing vendor; sold the videos it tested), Case Study: TutorVista (2010-02). Accessed 2026-11-03.
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