How coverage works
Central Florida is one region for weather and many separate places for everything else. The same thunderstorm can drop limbs in Clermont and Oviedo in one afternoon, but the tree rules, the utility and the trees themselves change from town to town.
Tree Service Orlando FL does not dispatch anyone and has no local offices. When you call (689) 407-5379, the automated assistant asks for your city or ZIP code and transfers you to an independent, locally owned tree service company that works in that part of the region. That company handles the visit, the price and the work. The city pages explain what is particular to each place so you know what to ask.
Cities with their own page
Grouped by county. Each page covers that town's trees, its tree rules and who supplies the power.
Orange County
Orlando
The City of Orlando issues its own tree removal permits, with a $25 residential fee. Its electric utility is OUC.
Winter Garden
About 14 miles west of downtown Orlando, bordered by Lake Apopka to the north, in a former citrus town that has grown fast since 2000.
Ocoee
West of Orlando in Orange County, a city whose first settlement grew up beside Starke Lake in the mid-1800s.
Apopka
Northwest Orange County, known as the Indoor Foliage Capital of the World for its many greenhouse nurseries.
Winter Park
Brick streets under old live oaks and camphor trees, a chain of connected lakes, and Rollins College, founded in 1885.
Seminole County
Altamonte Springs
South Seminole County, centered on Cranes Roost Lake off State Road 436, with Lake Orienta and other lakes nearby.
Longwood
Founded in 1878, with a historic downtown district and wooded neighborhoods that grew quickly in the 1980s.
Lake Mary
A suburban city about 19 miles from Orlando, along with the nearby Heathrow area.
Sanford
The Seminole County seat, on the southern shore of Lake Monroe where the St. Johns River becomes navigable.
Oviedo
East Seminole County, settled near Lake Jesup in 1875, with the Econlockhatchee River on its eastern side.
Osceola County
Kissimmee
The Osceola County seat, on the northwest shore of Lake Tohopekaliga.
St. Cloud
On the southern shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga in northern Osceola County. OUC supplies its electricity.
Lake County
Clermont
Lake County's most populous city, with rolling hills unusual for Florida and the Clermont chain of lakes.
West Volusia County
DeLand
The Volusia County seat, nicknamed the Athens of Florida, and home to Stetson University.
What changes from town to town
Storms do not care about city limits. These three things do, and each one can change who you call or what paperwork is involved.
Whose tree rules apply
Inside Orlando city limits, removals generally need a City permit, $25 for a home. Every other city and each county writes its own rules. One rule is statewide: under Florida Statute 163.045, no local government can require a permit for a tree at a single-family home when a certified arborist or licensed landscape architect documents that it poses an unacceptable risk.
Who handles trees on lines
OUC serves Orlando, parts of nearby unincorporated Orange County and St. Cloud, and asks customers to call (407) 423-9018 about trees near its lines. Other parts of the region are served by other utilities, so check the name and number on your electric bill before storm season.
What is growing there
A lakefront lot in Winter Park, a hillside in Clermont and a new subdivision on former farmland need different things. Old laurel oaks, which UF/IFAS says live 50 to 70 years, are a bigger issue in older neighborhoods than in newer ones planted with younger trees.
- Call any hourAn automated assistant answers (689) 407-5379 and asks what kind of tree work you need.
- Describe the jobGive your name, a callback number, your city or ZIP and what the tree is doing, including anything on a roof, a car or a line.
- Get put throughThe call goes to an independent, locally owned tree service company, which hears a short summary before it picks up.
- Deal with them directlyThat company looks at the tree, quotes, does the work and is paid by you. If it cannot answer, it gets your details to call back.
How this line works: Tree Service Orlando FL is a free phone line, not a tree service company. It does not trim, remove, quote or schedule tree work and holds no license or arborist certification. Calls are transferred to independent, locally owned tree service companies in the Orlando area. Those companies may pay Tree Service Orlando FL a referral fee. You never pay the line. How it works.