Tree Service in Wadsworth, OH

Tree Service in Wadsworth crosses into Medina County, about 11.6 miles southwest of Akron. Wadsworth was founded in 1814, incorporated as a village in 1876 and as a city in 1931, and it's still growing: the population rose 11.3% between 2010 and 2020, from 21,567 to 24,007. That gives the city two very different kinds of tree work. Near the center, there are older homes with big, aging trees. On the edges, there are new subdivisions where trees are young, or where builders left a strip of woods at the back of the lots.

Matches and history

For much of the twentieth century, Wadsworth made blue strike-anywhere matches, a run that lasted into the 1980s and is still celebrated at the annual Blue Tip Festival. The houses built for the people who worked in town are now many decades old, and their yard trees are often at the stage where large deadwood, decay and lean become real concerns.

Higher ground

The city sits around 1,165 feet in elevation, a few miles south of the Saint Lawrence River Divide, the line that separates water flowing north to Lake Erie from water flowing south toward the Ohio River. Upland ground like this tends to be more exposed to wind than the river valleys around Akron. For tall trees on open lots, that means more stress on weak branch unions during summer storms and more wind-thrown trees when soils are saturated in spring.

Common Wadsworth work

• Removing large, declining trees from older in-town lots, usually in sections
• Trimming trees over roofs and driveways
• Taking out dead ash and storm-broken trees from wooded lot edges in newer subdivisions
• Structural pruning on young trees planted with new homes
• Stump grinding for lawn repair or new landscaping
• Clearing trees ahead of a fence, garage or addition

Edge trees in new subdivisions

When a subdivision is carved out of woods, the trees left standing at the edge of each lot lose the neighbors that sheltered them, and their roots are often cut during grading. Many of them begin to decline five to fifteen years later. If a tree at the back of your Wadsworth lot has a thinning crown, dead branches at the top, or mushrooms at its base, it's worth having it looked at before it fails toward the house.

Check who your utility is

Ohio Edison's published tree-trimming list includes Wadsworth among the Summit and Medina area communities it trims on a four-year cycle. Electric service around the area can vary by address, so check your bill to see whom to call if a tree is in the lines. Either way, the utility needs to make primary lines safe before tree work can begin.

Get a quote

Call (330) 325-4776 or send the form. We'll come out to Wadsworth, walk the trees with you and give you a written estimate. Get a free estimate