In the leafy suburbs north of the city, mature trees and power lines share every yard.

Westchester earned its reputation as the green edge of New York, and the trees that shade Scarsdale, Bronxville, and the Rivertowns are exactly what make its storms so costly. Century-old oaks and towering white pines lean over slate roofs, stone walls, and the overhead lines that thread every quiet street — so when one fails, it rarely falls on open ground.

The county sits in a tough weather corridor. Nor'easters and tropical remnants like Ida push flooding up the Bronx and Saw Mill River valleys, wet spring snow snaps overloaded limbs, and the ice storms that ride down the Hudson glaze whole crowns until the wood simply can't hold. Saturated hillsides above the Sound then let root plates lift with alarming ease.

We position crews to move fast across the county the moment the National Weather Service New York/Upton (OKX) office posts a warning, from the Sound Shore cities up to the Croton reservoirs.