The maple that shaded your porch for sixty years is lying on it. A limb the size of a telephone pole is across the driveway, or the whole crown of an oak is hanging over the roof by a split leader that cracked in last night's wind. When that's your morning, you don't need a brochure — you need emergency tree removal in Logan, Ohio, and someone who actually picks up. Call (740) 216-8262. Reliable Tree Service runs a true 24 hour tree service — 24/7 support and emergency tree removal, with 300 emergency responses answered across Logan and the Hocking Hills since 2015.
What counts as a tree emergency
You don't need our permission to call, but here's what we drop everything for:
- A tree or large limb on the house, garage, or car — even if it "looks stable." Storm-thrown trunks settle, and every hour of wind moves the load.
- A new lean with cracked or mounded soil at the base. That's root plate movement — the tree has partially uprooted, and trees that start to go over rarely re-anchor. Keep everyone out from under it.
- Hangers and broken limbs caught in the canopy — the ones old-timers call widow-makers — suspended over a roof, a driveway, or the spot where the kids play.
- A tree down across your driveway or private lane. On Hocking Hills cabin properties with a quarter mile of gravel access, a blocked drive isn't an inconvenience — it's being trapped. Fallen tree removal on rural drives is some of the most common emergency work we do.
One honest boundary: if the tree is standing, healthy at the roots, and you're planning ahead — a dead ash you want gone before winter, a maple crowding the addition — that's a scheduled job, and our tree removal service handles it better and cheaper than an emergency call. This page is for right now.
Tree fell on the house? Who to call — and in what order
If you're typing "tree fell on house who to call" into your phone at 2 a.m., here is the order that keeps people alive:
- If any wire is involved, call your electric utility first — not a tree company. Across rural Hocking County that's usually South Central Power. A tree in contact with a line can energize the whole trunk, the fence it's touching, and the wet ground around it. No tree crew should touch that tree until the utility kills the line — and any crew that offers to is telling you everything you need to know about them.
- If the structure is breached or anyone is hurt, call 911 and get everyone out of the house and away from the tree.
- Then call us — (740) 216-8262, answered 24/7 — and your insurance company.
We wrote a full walkthrough of that first hour, including what to photograph and what not to touch, in a tree fell on my house — who do I call?
How our storm damage tree removal works
Storm damage tree removal is a different job from dropping a standing tree, and it's where experience earns its keep. A tree that fell in the wind didn't fall neatly — parts of it are under tension, parts under compression, and cutting the wrong side first releases that stored energy into the saw operator. That's why chainsaw injuries spike in the week after a storm, when homeowners take on cleanup themselves.
Our sequence: the call is answered, day or night. On site, we read the tree before anyone cuts — what's loaded, what's pinned, what moves when the first limb comes off. Then we take the weight off the structure with controlled rigging, piece by piece, so nothing free-falls onto a roof that's already hurt. We clear access, leave the roof tarp-ready for your roofer or contractor, and hand you a written estimate for the full cleanup. Bonded and insured, on every emergency call, every time.
Insurance coordination and documentation
We work with major insurance providers, and on storm jobs that means more than a slogan. We photograph the scene before and during removal, write itemized estimates an adjuster can actually use, and keep the scope clean — tree removal on one line, structural repair on someone else's. One honest note: coverage usually applies when the tree fell on a covered structure; a standing tree you'd simply like gone is typically your own expense. The full breakdown — deductibles, neighbor's-tree scenarios, what adjusters look for — is in our guide to whether insurance covers tree removal.
Storms here aren't an "if"
The February 2022 ice storm hit Hocking County harder than any of Ohio's other 87 counties — a county State of Emergency, roads closed by ice-loaded trees, crews walking in past downed timber to reach the lines. Summer brings its own version: derechos and thunderstorm downbursts that uproot whole trees from the thin, sandstone-derived soils on our exposed ridge tops. And the county's standing dead ash — killed by emerald ash borer, brittle and everywhere — fails first in every one of those events.
That's why storm response isn't a sideline for us. We answer emergencies across Logan, Rockbridge, New Plymouth, New Straitsville, and the surrounding Hocking Hills, from in-town streets to cabin lanes the plow trucks don't know exist.
After the storm — the full cleanup
Once the dangerous part is down, we finish the job: limbs chipped, logs bucked to manageable lengths or hauled off, the driveway and yard cleared, and the survivors looked at honestly. A tree that stayed up through the storm but lost a major limb, split at a fork, or heaved slightly at the roots deserves a professional eye before the next front comes through — that's what our tree health assessments are for. Some storm-damaged trees can be saved; some are now scheduled removals waiting to become emergencies. We'll tell you which is which.
If a tree is on your house, across your drive, or leaning worse than it was yesterday, don't wait for morning. Call (740) 216-8262 — 24/7 support and emergency tree removal, and a Logan crew that has answered this exact call 300 times.