Yes! One on house and three different incidents of large trees falling on his workshop. All weather related.

ETA: wooded lots are lovely but potential for danger of limbs falling on people and property is real. Most of us forget until calamity knocks

82 year old mothers house ...

30k damage.. new roof.. new window... new sill ... and cracks in the plaster in her room upon which it fell ... probably a big plus it was a brick house with plaster walls ... since it literally fell above her in bed ....

i had spent 30 year telling dad.. grhs .... that he should have gotten rid of that silver maple 10 feet from the house ...

the only upside ... mom had the money to get it fixed in weeks rather than waiting months for the ins co to pay out so the process could begin ...

a very good adjuster wrote the claim to match the cost ... and frankly admitted.. he saved money for his company doing so ... lol ...

we also found out that tree companies give very nice discounts to senior citizens ...

ken

Branches, yes but never had an entire tree fall over. And the branches never did any real damage - most just bounced off the roof or fell in the yard. Was at a client's house recently and branch from a tree not located very close was impaled in the middle of the lawn like like spear! Penetrated a good 6-8".

Woke up to a heavy, wet snowfall this morning, so expect a few dead branches from the surrounding woods to give it up. They make quite the noise crashing down!

When I found a 4' branch on my lawn, I measured 27' from my neighbor's tree to the corner of my house. If a limb merely breaks off, it will likely miss the house, but if high wind carries the limb...

Ken, I have a silver maple (that's probably hollow) right beside my house LOL. I've had some big branches fall out of silver maples and 1 or 2 out of the sweetgums. My neighbors have a line of silver maples that were topped by the previous owners. It's bad because one branch breaks, falls into the tree beside it, breaks a branch off of it, and starts a chain reaction which is very easy to notice.

ma's was a 6 inch branch from about 30 feet ...

and it was one heck of a storm ....

ken

Not the best of shots but it was quicker searching google for them than my pc.

I have had a branch come VERY close to hitting my house and Cabrallero and even a Japanese maple but somehow miss them all.

Then I started paying real good attention to what they look like.

Slicing up it and a few others and comparing the correlation between what the outside and insides look like was very educational.

Yes indeedy. Fell on a back addition which was Grandsons room at the time. Tree removal was 2K. Pulled the electric box off the outside wall. We were in a hotel for 10 days. We had two other trees that were close to the house removed, did not want to go through that again .

apparently a lot of this going on in the PNW right now...my brother in Seattle just sent me a picture from his neighborhood

Yep, just made it out to the grocery store and post office and although we didn't get a lot of snow where I live we did get enough of it - heavy and wet - to break off portions of trees all along my travels. Even my private road had a couple of branches down that were (fortunately) cleared off by earlier traveling brave souls.

Branch down on the evergreen magnolia in my garden as well. But nothing close to house.

I also thought I would bring up falling ailanthus. There was a large ailanthus (that planted itself) behind the neighbor's shed. I watched from my window during a storm as it fell and landed on the building. It has since grown back and is about 20-25' tall.

Yes, one very, very tall Spanish/Pin Oak. I was not home, no one in the house at the time. When I got home the next day, it looked like there was a plane crash, branches, leaves, vines, crushed metal and rain falling in the attic. It was a May squall line that brought it down and opened up the light canopy near the house (if not temporarily, INTO the house).

subtropix..curious..what was the $$$ damage?

Nicholsworth, the trees are less likely to fall because their roots are intertwined with each other. You could still have problems like wind breakage, lightning damage, internal rot, etc.

Logan..so true..feel fortunate that I've lived here 12 years and the house has not been damaged..still think having trees is worth the risk..

i was a renter at the time, so nada! But the reason that the tree was there was that the elderly neighbor did not wanna pay the $ to remove a large tree close to two houses. There were lots of trees downed in Hurricanes Irene and Sandy but those where well in the back and no threat to the house but did create a tangled MESS and mouths of work. There is nothing around now that threatens. I love trees too, but in a storm, it is a cause of concern.

We removed all the large threatening trees from around our house, thank goodness. It cost a pretty penny, but I sleep better. We did it over a period of three years.

I have never had property damage due to falling trees. However when we lived in Wilmington NC we had three hurricanes in a couple of months, The worst was Fran.

In those storms we lost 30 trees on our 0.6 acre lot, ranging from mature saplings to one white pine that was about 30" at the base. All of those trees fell parallel to the front and back of the house. The only damage we received was an inch tear in one of the screens.

Our whole neighborhood of about 70 house was equally lucky, a lot of trees were lost but like ours most fell parallel to the houses, Of the neighborhood only 3 or 4 took damage.

We had one drop on a vehicle, and more than one in the road from our property, but not on our house. A large sugar maple landed on a neighbor's house, and this being a small town the fire department showed up to remove the part on the house and to tarp over the hole in the roof until repairs could be made.

1/3 of a sugar maple fell on our house. Because of the way it landed, there was no damage.

The tricky part is removal.

I had a loblolly pine uproot onto a mature winged elm and both fall onto the house in 2013 during a storm with straight line winds. No damage to the house, the elm cushioned the fall. Had to get a crane to pick both off the house, insurance paid since they were on the house. Here's some pics of the winged elm of the removal. It was a good size tree. I don't live at this house anymore, I bought a home with 1+ acre where I can plant my trees away from the house.

still looks so perfect hanging from the crane..

The elm was the hero and unfortunate casualty, the pine uprooted onto the elm. It bent the elm enough to compromise the roots, it had to go. Because elms are flexible, it saved the roof.

don't you hate to see trees destroyed?..years of growing down the drain..