Tree Removal in Cameron Park

• A gray pine leans toward the house or keeps dropping limbs on the driveway.
• A pine went brown from the top down this summer.
• You got a notice from the Cameron Park CSD or the fire department about weeds or clearing.
• An oak has to go and you don't know if the county cares.
• Your street has CC&Rs and you aren't sure the review committee has to sign off.
• There's an old stump right where the new patio is going.
• Branches hang over the roof or crowd the chimney.

Nobody can price a tree over the phone. Not honestly, anyway. The ranges below come from national cost guides plus Thumbtack's Sacramento tree removal page. Use them to get your bearings, not as a quote.

Sources: This Old House tree removal guide (updated March 2026) and stump removal guide (March 2026); Thumbtack tree removal and stump grinding guides (October 2026) and Thumbtack's Sacramento tree removal page. Medium and tall rows are from the Sacramento page.

A dead tree is not the cheap one. Thumbtack's guide says a dead or sick tree usually comes down one limb at a time. Slow work costs more.

The stump is usually extra. This Old House says a $400 to $1,000 removal often doesn't include grinding the stump. Ask before you sign.

Get the price in writing, with what it covers. Hauling, chipping, stump. All of it.

Dead and beetle-killed trees

Brown pines, oaks that quit in a dry year, trees with beetle holes. Dead wood turns brittle. Waiting makes it worse.

Fire clearing around the house

Thinning trees and brush so a fire has less to burn near your walls. The district has its own rule for this.

Oak removal and permits

County oak rules, plus CC&R approval on a lot of Cameron Park streets. Sort that out first.

Trees too close to the house

Big trees over the roof, near the deck or by a power line. These come down in pieces, carefully.

Stump grinding

The grinder turns the stump into chips, below the dirt line. Then you can plant, mow or pour a patio there.

Cameron Park isn't a city. It's a census-designated place, which means the county's oak rule applies here. On top of that, the Cameron Park Community Services District has its own weed and rubbish rule. It's Ordinance No. 2025.05.21 and it covers every parcel in the district, with a house on it or not.

Then there are CC&Rs. The CSD's CC&R department and its Architectural Review Committee look after over 80 neighborhoods and nearly 8,000 homes. Their handbook lists tree removals as work that needs the committee's OK. Start without it and you could be looking at a violation and extra fees.

So before a big tree comes down, make two quick calls:

• Is it an oak? Ask the county Planning & Building Department.
• Is your lot under CC&Rs? Ask the CSD's CC&R desk at (530) 672-2031.

Not sure who to call? Ask us. We'll point you the right way.

Summer days here sit in the 90 to 100 degree range, and some hit 110. Summers are dry, and fall is often just more summer.

Right now CAL FIRE serves as Cameron Park's fire department. The district's clearing list, short version:

• Keep branches 10 feet back from the chimney.
• Rake the roof and scoop the gutters. Dead needles up there catch fast.
• From 30 to 100 feet out, keep the grass at 4 inches or less.
• Leave room between shrubs and trees, side to side and up and down.

Embers are the big worry. El Dorado County Fire says they can land a mile or more ahead of the flames. A dry pine next to your eaves is a good place for one to catch.

Good news on oaks. A county summary says native oaks taken out for defensible space upkeep are exempt from the oak mitigation rules.

Gray pines and oaks make up most of the native trees in Cameron Park. You'll see a few ponderosa pine groves on the higher ground. When a hot, dry summer stresses a pine, bark beetles show up. UC IPM, the pest experts at the University of California, say native bark beetles go after trees already stressed by drought.

What to watch for:

• Needles turning yellow and falling.
• Little pink or white blobs of sap and sawdust low on the trunk. Those are pitch tubes.
• Holes in the bark with fine dust around them.

A pine loaded with beetles can be dead within a single season, UC IPM says. Dead pines shed limbs and make the fire danger worse.

The county Fire Safe Council warns about outfits that offer to spray for beetles. They say chemical control rarely works. If the pine is already dying, the real question is when it comes down.

1. Ring (530) 457-1414, or send a request online.
2. Say what kind of tree it is, about how tall, and how close it sits to the house.
3. We call around for a tree removal company that takes Cameron Park jobs.
4. We set a day for them to come out and look.
5. The tree company gives you a price in writing.
6. You say yes or no. We won't lean on you.

• Ask for the pro's contractor license number. Run it through the state's Check a License search at cslb.ca.gov.
• Ask if stump grinding and hauling are in the price or extra.
• Power line in the tree? PG&E's rule: tree work near lines is for trained, line clearance-qualified people only. Their number is 1-800-743-5000.
• Ask where the beetle wood goes. UC IPM says chip it or wrap it in clear plastic in the sun. And don't move it around as firewood.

Cameron Park, ZIP 95682, is home base. From the Airpark to Country Club Drive, it's all in. We cover the towns around it too. See every town and what's different there, or pick yours:

• Shingle Springs tree removal
• Rescue tree removal
• El Dorado Hills tree removal
• Folsom tree removal
• Diamond Springs tree removal
• El Dorado tree removal
• Placerville tree removal
• Latrobe tree removal
• Gold Hill tree removal
• Coloma tree removal
• Lotus tree removal
• Pilot Hill tree removal
• Cool tree removal

Your road not on here? Call anyway. If it's out of range, you'll hear that from us up front.

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