Tree Service in West Lake Hills, Texas

West Lake Hills protects its trees the way other cities protect historic buildings — and honestly, the canopy over Davenport Ranch and the ridges off Bee Caves Road deserves it. The flip side: tree work here has real legal stakes. Removing or even heavily trimming the wrong tree without city sign-off can bring fines that dwarf the job cost.

We do a lot of Westlake work that other outfits walk away from: rigging removals over pool decks on Lost Creek's canyon lots, deadwooding hundred-year live oaks in Rob Roy, storm cleanup along Red Bud Trail, and the patient paperwork that each of those legally requires.

Permits, wildfire, and very big trees

West Lake Hills and neighboring Rollingwood run among the strictest tree ordinances in Texas — permits are required for removing most significant trees, with mitigation plantings often attached, and Austin's own protected-tree rules (generally 19 inches diameter and up, heritage rules at 24) apply on the Austin-jurisdiction edges of 78746. We identify whose rules govern your tree and what they require as part of every quote, before a saw comes off the truck.

The other quiet issue is fire. The Wild Basin side of Westlake and the Lost Creek canyons carry the same kind of dense Ashe-juniper fuel that drove the 2011 Steiner Ranch fire across Lake Austin, and insurers have long memories. Thinning cedar out of the understory while preserving the oak canopy is the rare project that improves safety, insurability, and property value at once — and because it is thinning rather than removal, it usually clears the ordinance cleanly.