Spring is a name that covers a lot of ground. On paper it is a census designated place of about 62,500 people in Harris County. In everyday use it stretches across much of north Harris County and into the southern edge of Montgomery County, from Old Town Spring at Spring-Cypress and Hardy roads out to subdivisions along the Grand Parkway. Finding a tree service in Spring, TX starts with knowing which part of that map you live in.
Tree Service Houston TX is a free number, not a tree company, and nobody on the line climbs, cuts or quotes. Call (346) 680-8916, give the automated assistant your ZIP and a quick description of the tree, and your call goes to an independent, locally owned company that already works in Spring. That company sees the tree, prices the job and does it if you say yes.
Pines, bottomland oaks and two creeks
North of Houston the land changes. Lots that sit back from the main roads often keep tall loblolly pines and big water oaks from the woods that stood there before the subdivisions, and two creeks frame the area: Cypress Creek to the south and Spring Creek along the county line to the north.
Spring Creek is the spine of the Spring Creek Greenway, a chain of parks and preserves running about 40 miles from the West Fork of the San Jacinto River to past SH 249 near Tomball. The bottomland forest along it is dominated by bald cypress, water oak, willow oak, cherrybark oak, American elm, green ash and sweetgum. Many back yards near the creeks hold the same mix.
That mix explains a lot of Spring tree calls. Pines grow tall over roofs and fences. Water oaks grow fast and spread wide over driveways. Sweetgums shed their spiky seed balls across lawns. And trees near the creeks have lived through repeated floods.
Whose rules apply to a tree in Spring
Spring sits in Houston's extraterritorial jurisdiction but outside city limits, so the City of Houston's street tree permit is not the rule here. These are the parties that usually matter.
| Question | Who decides or handles it | What to do |
|---|---|---|
| Can I remove a tree on my own lot? | No city ordinance; your deed restrictions or HOA may set rules | Read your restrictions and ask the HOA or its architectural committee before work starts |
| A tree stands along a county road | Harris County Office of the County Engineer, which handles permits in unincorporated areas | Ask the tree company to confirm the property line and check with the county first |
| Limbs in the wires along the street | CenterPoint Energy in most of Spring | Forestry team, 713-207-2222; confirm your utility on your bill |
| The wire from the pole to your house | The homeowner keeps it clear of trees | Hire a tree company and ask how it will work around the line |
| Limbs and brush at the curb | Your MUD or HOA's trash contractor | Follow your district's bundle rules |
| A line is down or someone is hurt | Emergency services and the utility | 911, and keep everyone back |
No city hall, but plenty of rules
Because Spring is unincorporated, it has no city council writing a tree ordinance, no city arborist and no city tree permit. Spring falls in Harris County Precinct 3, which took it over from Precinct 4 in the October 2021 redistricting, and the county's Office of the County Engineer runs permits for unincorporated areas, including notifications for work in county road rights of way.
For most homeowners, though, the rules that bite are private ones. Many Spring subdivisions were built with recorded deed restrictions and an HOA, and some of those documents cover trees: whether one can be removed, whether a replacement is required, or what can be done with a tree in a common area or along an HOA greenbelt. Pull out your restrictions or ask your management company before booking a removal. A tree in a common area belongs to the association, not the homeowner who looks at it from the back porch.
If your home is on the Montgomery County side, near the Grand Parkway and Rayford Road for instance, the address still reads Spring, but the county is different. Tell the assistant your ZIP so the call goes to a company that works on your side of the creek.
Floods, a hurricane and a tornado
Spring's trees carry a long storm record, and a tree's history is worth knowing before you decide what to do with it.
- April 2016The Tax Day storms dropped up to 16 inches of rain, and Cypress, Spring and Willow creeks spilled over their banks onto area roads.
- August 2017Hurricane Harvey brought an average of about 30 inches of rain to several points along Cypress Creek, and homes near Cypress and Spring creeks flooded.
- July 2024Hurricane Beryl dropped 7.2 inches of rain in the Spring area, and the Spring Fire Department answered about 300 calls by July 9, including downed trees and power lines.
- November 2025An EF-2 tornado with peak winds of 125 mph tore through the Klein area next door, where crews cleared fallen trees from roads and yards in the Memorial Northwest neighborhood.
Floodwater does its damage slowly. After Harvey, a Texas A&M Forest Service strike team surveyed Houston-area trees for the effects of flooding, because trees that sit in water for days can look fine for a season and then decline. If a big tree near your house stood in floodwater, or came through Beryl leaning, have a company look at it before the next hurricane season starts on June 1.
Power, pickup and pine needles: three local details
CenterPoint lines
CenterPoint delivers power in most of Spring. One Spring family near the Grand Parkway and Rayford Road told ABC13 they got ten outage notices in the summer of 2023, and CenterPoint blamed trees falling on lines along with heat. Tree trimming in Spring covers who clears what.
MUD trash rules
Most Spring neighborhoods get trash service through a MUD or HOA contract, and each district sets its own brush rules. Rayford Road MUD asks for bundles no longer than 4 feet, no branch thicker than 4 inches and no bundle over 40 pounds. A whole tree is far beyond that, so ask whether hauling is in the quote.
Pines under stress
Texas A&M Forest Service says bark beetles go after stressed pines, and drought is one of the stresses that raises their activity. A pine that browns from the top down after a dry summer deserves a professional look, not a wait and see.
What Spring homeowners call about
Most calls from Spring fall into a handful of jobs. A pine or water oak has died or is leaning toward the house, and it needs to come down; see tree removal in Spring, and the general tree removal page for how removals work. Limbs have grown over the roof or into the service wire, or the crape myrtles and oaks need shaping; see tree trimming in Spring and the main tree trimming page. After a storm the job may be a tree on the house, which is emergency tree removal, or a yard full of broken limbs, which is debris removal. Old stumps from past storms are a stump grinding job.
Not every call needs a saw. If you are not sure whether a tree is safe, an arborist assessment can tell you what you are looking at before you pay for removal.
- Check your paperworkRead your deed restrictions or ask the HOA whether the job needs approval.
- Photograph the treeTake pictures of the trunk, any cracks, lean or dead limbs, and anything it could hit.
- Call the lineGive your ZIP, whether you are on the Harris or Montgomery County side, and what the tree is doing.
- Check the companyAsk for a certificate of insurance and any ISA credentials, and compare written quotes.
Texas does not license tree trimming or removal companies, so the questions you ask are the protection you have.
Check the company yourself. Texas has no state license for tree trimming or tree removal, so a business card proves very little. Ask the company for a certificate of general liability insurance sent by its insurance agent, proof of workers' compensation coverage, and the ISA certification number of its arborist. A company that sprays or injects trees for hire needs a pesticide license from the Texas Department of Agriculture or its Structural Pest Control Service. You can confirm a certification with the ISA's credential lookup (opens in a new tab).
Not sure what the tree needs? Call and describe it. The company you are put through to looks at the tree and tells you the price before any work starts.
Tree work Spring homes need most
Tree Removal
Taking down a dead, leaning or unwanted tree near a Houston home, from water oaks and pines to big live oaks, and what a complete quote covers.
Tree Trimming
Getting limbs off the roof and away from the house, raising canopies over driveways and lightening heavy crowns before hurricane season.
Emergency and Storm Tree Removal
A tree on the house, the car or across the street after a hurricane, a derecho or a hard freeze. What to do first and how emergency work is handled.
Stump Grinding and Removal
Grinding a stump below the lawn, what happens to the roots and chips, utility locates and when full stump removal is worth it.
Tree Debris Removal and Hauling
Hauling limbs, logs and storm debris, what curbside tree waste pickup takes, and when to have the tree company haul it instead.
Arborist Assessment and Tree Care
A certified arborist's look at a tree's health and risk, diseases common around Houston, and how to check an arborist's credentials.
How a call from Spring works
- Call any hourAn automated assistant answers (346) 680-8916 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 Houston TX 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 Houston area. Those companies may pay Tree Service Houston TX a referral fee. You never pay the line. How it works.
Guides for Spring homeowners
- Tree Removal Cost in Houston
- Tree Trimming Cost in Houston
- When to Trim Trees in Houston
- Hurricane Season Tree Prep
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