Tree Fell on Fence Repair in Lakewood, WA

Pierce County is full of tall Douglas firs, and every windstorm brings a few down on fence lines. A tree across your fence is heavier and more tangled than it looks, and the crushed section is usually a total loss. We clear the debris, rebuild the damaged run and get your yard closed back up.

Because the old business did tree work too, we can often handle both ends of the job — getting the tree off the fence and rebuilding the fence — so you are not juggling two crews and two schedules.

What Happens First

1. Make sure no power line is involved — if one is, we wait for the utility to clear it.
2. Clear the tree and limbs off the fence and the yard.
3. Secure the opening so pets and kids are safe.
4. Assess which sections are salvageable and which need rebuilding.
5. Photograph the damage for your insurance claim and rebuild the fence.

Who Pays When a Tree Falls on a Fence?

In Washington, when a healthy tree falls in a storm, each property owner’s insurance generally handles the damage on their own side, regardless of whose tree it was. It can be different if the tree was known to be dead or hazardous. This is general information — confirm how your policy treats it with your insurer.

Salvaging What the Tree Missed

A tree almost never destroys an entire fence — it crushes the sections directly under the trunk and the big limbs while the rest of the run comes through fine. Once the tree is safely cleared, we sort what is salvageable from what is not: panels that only shifted can often be reset, while anything cracked or racked out of square gets replaced. Matching new boards or panels to a weathered fence takes some care, and we blend the repair so the rebuilt section reads as part of the fence rather than an obvious patch. You pay to fix what the tree actually broke, not the whole line.

Clearing the Tree Without Making It Worse

A tree tangled in a fence is under tension, and a careless cut can spring the trunk or drop a limb. We relieve that tension in stages, lift the weight off the remaining fence rather than dragging it across the yard, and protect the sound sections and any landscaping as we work. Where a limb is resting on a line or a structure, we stop and get the utility involved before anything is cut. The goal is to get the tree off cleanly so the rebuild starts from a safe, stable line.

Tree Removal and Fence Repair in One Call

The headache after a tree comes down is usually the juggling — one company for the tree, another for the fence, two schedules and a yard sitting open in between. Because we came up as a full-service contractor, we can clear the tree and limbs and rebuild the crushed fence as a single job. That means one crew, one estimate, and a yard that gets secured and then closed back up without a gap of days while two companies trade phone calls.

Why Lakewood Homeowners Call Us

Douglas-fir windthrow is a fact of life on wooded Pierce County lots, and we have been clearing trees off fences and rebuilding them across Lakewood since 2017. We are a registered Washington contractor (L&I #CREATEL809CL), insured and bonded, rated 4.6★ on Google. We secure the yard first, document the damage for your insurer, and rebuild only what the tree actually broke — at a fair price, with the cleanup included.