Tree Service in Post Falls, Idaho
Post Falls took the brunt of it in December 2025. While the windstorm hammered all of Kootenai County, it was Post Falls where news crews found residents digging out and tree contractors working around the clock — the town sits right where wind accelerates across the open Rathdrum Prairie before it piles into the first stands of timber and the subdivisions built among them.
That geography is the story of tree work here. Post Falls grew fast, and a lot of it grew into existing pine stands: newer construction on the prairie edge with mature ponderosas left standing in yards, along fence lines, and between lots. Those hold-over pines are beautiful and valuable — and they’re also open-grown trees that came up in a forest, now standing alone in the wind with lawns irrigating their root zones. That combination (wind exposure + softened ground) is exactly what pulled so many over, roots and all, in the last two storms.
What Post Falls homeowners call about
The dying pine by the property line — often beetle activity, sometimes just drought stress showing in the crown; either way it needs an assessment before winter, not after. The developer-left tree cluster — three or four tall pines left in a tight group when the lot was cleared, now shedding limbs on two roofs. Storm leaners from December that got tarped and postponed. And stump backlogs — Post Falls yards are young; a stump dominates a small lawn in a way it doesn’t on a half-acre in Dalton Gardens.
Costs in Post Falls
Same market as the rest of Kootenai County: small-tree removals from a few hundred dollars, large pines $1,500–2,500+, trimming $200–900 per tree, stumps $150–400. Prairie-edge lots often have the best equipment access in the county, which helps keep bigger removals toward the lower end of the range. See Tree Removal, Trimming, and Stump Grinding for detail.
Covered neighborhoods and nearby
All of Post Falls — Riverbend and Riverview Park along the Spokane River, Montrose and Foxtail, and the prairie-side subdivisions like Prairie Falls, Prairie Meadows, Highland Park, and Greensferry Landing — plus Hauser and the state-line properties. Coeur d’Alene, Hayden, and Rathdrum are covered from the same dispatch.
Free estimates: (208) 902-2902