Tree service in Beaverton, Oregon

Tree removal permits in Beaverton

Beaverton sorts trees into categories before it decides whether you need a permit. Protected Trees, meaning Significant Individual, Historic, Grove or SNRA, Landscape and Mitigation trees under Development Code 40.90 and 60.60, need a Tree Plan 2 for any removal. Community Trees are the rest: unmapped trees 10 inches DBH and larger, fruit and nut trees excluded. On a single-family lot under half an acre the Community Tree rule does not reach you; on other lots, removing more than four Community Trees in a year triggers the plan. Those thresholds come from the city’s tree code audit report rather than the code text, so confirm them with the Planning Division before cutting.

Street trees run on a separate permit under Beaverton Code 5.05.102: removing or destroying a tree in the public right-of-way requires a Street Tree Removal Application, replacement is at the City Engineer’s discretion, and an emergency removal is allowed. Replacement is also built into the tree code: groves and SNRAs must keep 15 to 25 percent of their DBH depending on zone, and mitigation applies when more than half of the surveyed DBH comes out. No fee was found for a Tree Plan. The Planning Division in Community Development is the office to call, and the Oregon permit guide shows how Beaverton compares with its neighbors.

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Source: Community Development, Planning Division, Beaverton Development Code 40.90 (Tree Plan) and 60.60 (Trees and Vegetation); Beaverton Code 5.05.100-5.05.104 (street trees). Checked 2026-10-02.

Storm records for Washington County (covers Beaverton)

The largest recent episode for Washington County came on February 13, 2025, when a warm front rode over cold air already in place and left the Tualatin Valley zone with a mix of snow, sleet and freezing rain; NOAA logged four reports for it, split between Heavy Snow and Winter Storm. Ice is the thing to respect here: FEMA’s National Risk Index rates the county’s ice storm risk Relatively High, and freezing rain on a wide-crowned tree loads it in a way wind never does.

The longer record is moderate by Oregon standards. NOAA logged 104 reports since 2016, rank 23 of 36 counties, with High Wind the top type at 30, Heavy Snow at 24 and Strong Wind at 21. January, February and December are the peak months, and 69 percent of reports fall from November through February. The recent three years, with 25 reports, run close to the 29 of the three years before, so there is no trend to lean on, just the winter clock.

NWS forecast zones covering the county: North Oregon Coast Range; North Oregon Coast Range Lowlands; Tualatin Valley; West Hills and Chehalem Mountains.

Source: NOAA NCEI Storm Events Database, 2016 to June 2026 · NWS zone-county correlation files (2019 to 2026 versions). Checked 2026-10-02. NOAA Storm Events 2016-2026; zone-based events assigned to every county the NWS zone covers using the zone-county correlation file in force on the event date (2019-04-02 file used for 2016-2018).

Power lines and utilities in Beaverton

Portland General Electric is the utility for Beaverton. PGE trims around its transmission lines and its primary and secondary distribution lines, and it asks customers to keep at least 10 feet of clearance around primary lines; the exact distance varies with voltage under Oregon PUC rule OAR 860-024-0016. The service wire to your house is trimmed only when branches strain or rub it, so routine clearance there is yours, and PGE asks that nothing be planted under or around its wires. Outages go to 503-464-7777 or 800-544-1795, answered 24 hours. If your bill comes from a different utility, use the outage number printed on it and check the utilities index. Whoever serves you, a tree touching a line is the utility’s call before it is a crew’s.

Source: utility vegetation-management pages linked above; OAR 437-002-0306 (OR-OSHA). Checked 2026-10-02.

Pests and quarantines

Emerald ash borer (EAB) · quarantineMediterranean oak borer (MOB)

Two pests are confirmed in Washington County, and one of them carries a quarantine. Emerald ash borer is here and the Oregon quarantine applies: raw ash wood stays inside the quarantine boundary, and it can leave only as chips of one inch or smaller, as kiln-dried debarked lumber, or after heating the core to 160 F for 60 minutes with ODA permission. Loads must be covered during the April 1 to September 30 flight period, and sightings go to the Oregon Invasive Species Online Hotline; this site’s EAB page has the detail.

Mediterranean oak borer is also confirmed, without a quarantine. Keep cut oak firewood within 10 miles of where it was cut, chip infested trees to one inch or burn them on site including the stump, and report finds with photos and a location to the Oregon Invasives Hotline. If you are removing an ash or an oak in Beaverton, ask the crew where the wood is going before the saw starts.

• Emerald ash borer (EAB): OR (ODF/ODA): keep raw ash wood inside the quarantine; move only as <=1-in chips or kiln-dried debarked lumber, or heat 160F core for 60 min with ODA permission; cover loads during flight period Apr 1
• Mediterranean oak borer (MOB): Don't move cut oak firewood >10 miles from source; cut then burn or chip (<=1 in) infested trees including the stump on site; report with photos/location to Oregon Invasives Hotline

Source: Emerald ash borer (EAB) · Mediterranean oak borer (MOB). Checked 2026-10-02.

Rain, snow and the growing season in Beaverton

NOAA’s normals at the Nature Park station in Beaverton show 39.16 inches of precipitation a year, December the wettest month at 6.25 inches and August the driest at 0.46. The dry season is long and sharp here, which is good news for access: July through September give firm ground for a crane or a stump grinder, while the December peak is when saturated soil and loaded crowns put trees down.

Beaverton is in USDA hardiness zone 9a. Douglas fir, bigleaf maple and Oregon white oak are the common large trees in Tualatin Valley yards, and all three replant well in that zone; just keep the oak borer and ash borer notes above in mind when you choose a species.

Nature Park-Beaverton, Or Us: 39.2 in of precipitation a year, wettest in December. USDA hardiness zone 9a.

Source: NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991 to 2020 · USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023 (OSU PRISM ZIP data). Checked 2026-10-02.

Labor index for Beaverton

BLS puts the mean wage for tree trimmers and pruners in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro metro, which includes Beaverton, at $35.04 an hour, with a median of $36.33 and 1,160 people in the occupation. A median above the mean says the middle of the market is well paid rather than pulled up by a few outliers. None of that is a price; the modeled ranges on the service pages convert crew-hours to dollars using the Oregon rate described in the methodology.

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA: $35.04 per hour mean wage for tree trimmers and pruners (BLS, May 2025). This is a labor index, not a price; the modeled crew-hour cost used on this site is $225 (method).

276 landscaping-services establishments were counted in Washington County in 2023 (Census County Business Patterns, NAICS 561730).

Source: BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025, SOC 37-3013 · U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023, NAICS 561730. Checked 2026-10-02.

ZIP codes and nearby cities

Eight ZIP codes carry most of Beaverton’s land: 97008, 97007, 97005 and 97006 lead, with 97225, 97003, 97229 and 97223 following. The Census Bureau’s 2025 estimate puts the city at 97,842 people, barely changed from 97,494 in 2020. Tigard is 4 miles away, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego and Tualatin 7, Sherwood 8 and Portland 9, and each has its own page and its own code, so tell a company which city the tree is in before it bids.

ZIP codes with the most land inside Beaverton: 9700897007970059700697225970039722997223

• Tigard4 miles
• Hillsboro7 miles
• Lake Oswego7 miles
• Tualatin7 miles
• Sherwood8 miles
• Portland9 miles

County page: Washington County.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 ZCTA to place and county relationship files. Checked 2026-10-02.

Tree services in Beaverton

The Beaverton service pages cover removal, trimming, stump grinding and emergency work. Removal is where the Tree Plan 2 and Community Tree rules apply, and the cost guide covers what moves the modeled range; trimming includes the street-tree permit question for anything in the right-of-way; stump grinding has to deal with the ash borer quarantine on ash wood; and the emergency page covers the ice-and-snow events the county record favors. The arborist page is for a tree you want evaluated before any decision.

• Tree removal (statewide guide)
• Tree trimming in Beaverton
• Stump grinding in Beaverton
• Emergency tree service (statewide guide)
• Arborists and tree health
• Check a license in Oregon

What to do next

Find out which list your tree is on. A Protected Tree needs a Tree Plan 2 whatever its size, a Community Tree is measured at 10 inches DBH, and the Planning Division can tell you which applies before you spend anything on bids. For a tree in the planting strip, file the Street Tree Removal Application first; for a tree that looks unsafe, book a risk assessment.

Then check the company through the Oregon license lookup, ask where ash or oak wood will go given the quarantine and borer rules, and confirm who handles anything within 10 feet of a power line. Burning debris answers to Oregon DEQ. The Washington County page has the full storm and hazard record.