Tree Service in Tice, FL

Tree Service in Tice usually involves trees that have been growing since the neighborhood's first boom. Tice had 1,133 residents in 1950, 4,377 by 1960 and 7,254 by 1970, according to census counts, so many of its houses and the trees around them date to the 1950s and 1960s. State Road 80, Palm Beach Boulevard, is the main road, running about 4 miles southwest to downtown Fort Myers and 1 mile northeast to I-75, and the Caloosahatchee forms the northern edge. Fort Myers Tree Service Pros prunes and removes trees across the neighborhood, on lots where a single big oak can shade three houses.

Tice is one of the densest places we work, with more than 4,000 people per square mile in 2020, and one of the youngest. The median age was 31.2, and nearly a third of residents were under 18. Small yards full of kids, bikes and parked cars change how a job runs. We set a clear drop zone, keep it taped off while cutting, and finish with the yard raked and blown so it's usable the same evening.

When the tree is older than the house

A tree that has been in the yard for sixty years has usually been through several owners, a few hurricanes and at least one bad pruning job. Common problems we find in Tice:

• Limbs that were topped years ago and regrew as clusters of weakly attached sprouts
• Decay where large limbs were removed or broke off
• Roots cut during driveway, plumbing or sidewalk work
• Branches resting on roofs or grown around the service drop
• Palms planted next to the house that now reach the eaves

None of these automatically means the tree has to come out. Many can be corrected with careful pruning following ANSI A300 standards. Some can't, and when a tree is a real danger to the house, we say so directly.

Doing it in stages

Tree work doesn't have to happen all at once. If you have several trees that need attention, we can rank them in the estimate: what should be done now for safety, what should be done before hurricane season, and what can wait a year or two. You choose what to schedule, and each part is priced separately in writing.

Close to the river

The Caloosahatchee runs along Tice's northern edge. Lots near the water deal with wetter soil in summer and, in big storms, surge pushed up the river. In Hurricane Ian, the National Hurricane Center estimated 5 to 8 feet of inundation up the river in Fort Myers. Trees that sat in brackish water can decline slowly, so if a tree near the river has thinned over the past couple of years, it's worth a look.

Rules

Tice is unincorporated Lee County. The county's vegetation guide says removing five or fewer trees a year from a single-family lot with an existing home doesn't require a county permit.

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