Sam Houston Tree CoConroe · Lake Conroe · Montgomery Co. (936) 255-8827
Sectioning a mature oak from the rope, sawdust mid-air

Tree Service in Conroe, TX

Tree removal, trimming, storm cleanup and stump grinding for Conroe: one independent local company, free estimates.

Tree service in Conroe, TX covers the big pines over rooflines, the live oaks that outgrew the lot, and the storm damage that can’t wait until Monday. The local company that takes the job climbs the tree, brings it down in sections, and leaves the yard cleaner than it found it.

The work

Four jobs, each one handled start to finish.

Topping out a loblolly pine, climber at the crown

Tree Removal

Dead pines, storm-cracked oaks, trees planted three feet from the house thirty years ago. Most Conroe removals run $200–$2,000 depending on size and access; you get the number in writing before a saw starts.

How removals are priced →
Working the canopy of a live oak, rope and harness

Trimming & Pruning

Roofline clearance, deadwood, crown cleaning that keeps a shade tree healthy instead of butchering it. On oaks the work follows the oak wilt calendar — February through June, the saw stays off them.

What good pruning looks like →
Storm-dropped tree across a sedan, the morning after

Emergency & Storm Cleanup

When a Gulf storm line comes through Montgomery County, trees on houses and driveways go to the top of the list. Photograph everything, then call or request an estimate: the tree company handles the tree, you handle the adjuster with good documentation. What the adjuster will and won’t pay for is spelled out before you need it.

Storm response →
Stump grinder chewing through an old hardwood stump

Stump Grinding

Below grade, chips raked out or left as mulch — your call — and the spot ready to sod or replant. Fresh stumps from a removal qualify, and so do old ones somebody else left behind. Pricing first? See stump grinding prices in Conroe.

Stump grinding details →

Tree on the house?

Save this number before the next storm.

After Beryl came through in July 2024, a lot of Montgomery County needed tree help at the same time. When a tree comes down on the house, get the family out from under it, give any fallen wire a wide berth, and then phone it in or use the estimate form.

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Why here

Conroe grows trees faster than it grows subdivisions — and it grows subdivisions fast.

Conroe has added a third to its population since 2020, and nearly every one of those new lots was cut out of working pine forest. What’s left standing in the yard — loblolly pines pushing 80 feet, water oaks, sweetgums — grew up in a closed canopy and now stands alone against Gulf storm lines. That’s the tree work in this county: tall, heavy, and close to something expensive.

The clay doesn’t help. A saturated spring loosens root plates, an August drought cracks the ground open, and a pine that leaned two degrees last year leans eight this year. If a tree on your lot has started telegraphing — a new lean, dropped limbs, mushrooms at the base, a crown going thin — that’s the cheap moment to deal with it. The expensive moment involves a roof.

The Texas A&M Forest Service keeps good plain-language guides on hazard trees, and their oak wilt program is the reason no careful crew prunes a live oak in April, no matter how nicely you ask. Honest answers are part of the estimate.

Live oak limbs overhead, midsummer

Coverage

Conroe, the lake and the county

The service area sits inside a 20-minute radius of downtown Conroe: Willis and the FM 1097 corridor, Montgomery and the west shore of Lake Conroe, Panorama Village along I-45, and the wooded acreage out toward Grangerland. If you’re a few minutes past any of those, ask anyway.

Before you call

Three things Conroe homeowners ask us

What does it cost to take a tree down here?

Typical range in Montgomery County is $200–$2,000. Small ornamentals sit at the bottom; a mature pine or oak with room to work runs $800–$1,500; tight access, deadwood overhead, or crane work pushes past that, and true emergencies can reach $5,000. The estimate is free, written, and per-tree. The four things that set the number are walked through on the tree removal cost guide.

Is a city permit needed before a removal in Conroe?

On most residential lots, no — but some Conroe developments carry their own tree covenants, and HOAs around the lake can be particular. A covenant or overlay case gets flagged in the quote itself.

Can you just trim it instead of removing it?

Often, yes — and a fair estimate will tell you so. A thinned crown and clean roofline solves most “that tree scares me” conversations for a fraction of removal money. The exceptions are dead pines and cracked leaders: those only get worse. Either way the recommendation arrives in writing first — how this service works and how a job gets priced covers what the estimate includes and why the number does not move once the job has started.

Get a straight number on your tree.

Free written estimates across Conroe and Lake Conroe. If the tree deserves to stay, the estimate says so.