10,474+
Trees Removed
4,570
Jobs Completed
85
Communities Served
They did a great job at an affordable price. They lifted our canopy of trees and now our flowers get more sun. They are actual arborists. We highly recommend them
★★★★★
Lisa O’Quinn · Google review
G&V Tree Service did an excellent job trimming back tree branches in my yard. They took huge branches off of one tree, and took a section of another tree that was leaning towards the fence gate. The crew took all of the debris away and literally left no leaves or branches in my yard. Excellent work and a reasonable price.
★★★★★
Karen Mitchem · Google review
G & V Tree Service is most excellent at what they do. From Gary who came out to provide the estimate to the crew who removed the tree all were professional and a pleasure to work with. I will highly recommend them to one and all for your tree projects. And the young lady in the office was most excellent as well. Thank you G & V!!
★★★★★
Marty Praul · Google review
Most calls we get start with one of these. Here's how we handle each one.
An arborist looks at it in person and tells you if it really has to come down. Sometimes pruning is enough, and we'll say so.
Call any time, day or night, for trees down on houses, cars or lines. Our crews hold government storm standby contracts, so we're set up to move fast.
We know when Fairfax County requires one, like Resource Protection Areas, property-line trees or right-of-way, and we handle the paperwork for you.
No subcontractors. The same crew that assesses your trees does the work, and we show up when we say we will.
Whether you need a single tree taken down or ongoing commercial tree services for a managed site, our crews show up with the right equipment, the right training, and a straightforward assessment of what your situation requires.
We use impact-free rigging with friction devices, directional cuts, and controlled lowering — bringing them down section by section without dropping weight on the site. We’ve done tree removal in tight residential yards, near structures, over fences, and close to utility lines throughout the Springfield area. Dead or storm-damaged trees, leaning trunks, internal rot — we know how to handle all of it safely.
Limbs growing toward power lines, crowding rooflines, or overhanging driveways are liability issues, not just cosmetic ones. Our tree trimming addresses clearance while preserving its structure and health. We cut to proper collar positions, work to ANSI clearance standards, and reduce wind load — lowering the risk of branch failure during storms across the region’s four-season climate.
Where trimming addresses clearance, tree pruning shapes long-term structure — improving branch architecture, thinning the canopy for airflow, and guiding it toward a more stable form. Our arborists apply crown reduction, crown raising, and crown cleaning based on the species, age, and each specimen’s condition. We don’t top them. Topping destroys natural structure, triggers weak regrowth, and shortens its lifespan. If someone has recommended it, we’re happy to give you a second opinion.
A leftover stump creates tripping hazards, attracts wood-boring insects, and can spread fungal disease to surrounding vegetation. Our stump grinding handles stumps of every size, including large ones with deep root systems. We have compact grinders that fit through standard backyard gates. Before you rent a machine, give us a call — our rate is often less than a day’s equipment rental, and it’s a job that carries real injury risk without proper training.
Storm cleanup is one of the most urgent and dangerous jobs we take on. Our emergency response covers throughout the area. We operate under government standby contracts, so our crews are mobilized before the storm clears — not scrambling after calls pile up. Tree down, limb on a structure, dangerous lean after high winds — call us directly at (703) 569-2570. Storm-damaged wood can fail without warning.
Limbs near power lines are a safety risk for your home and your neighbors’. Our utility tree trimming and line clearance work handles these situations correctly. Power companies manage primary line clearance on their own schedule — limbs encroaching on secondary lines and utility connections are the owner’s responsibility. We provide residential and commercial utility line clearance throughout the region, done safely and without unnecessary damage to it.
Commercial accounts need tighter timelines, coordination around occupied buildings, and ongoing schedules rather than one-time calls. Our commercial services are built around those realities. We work with property managers, HOAs, office buildings, retail centers, apartment communities, and municipal sites throughout the region — from routine trimming contracts to large-scale removals and storm response.
Not every tree problem is obvious from the ground. Our tree health assessments include a full visual inspection, evaluation of structural integrity, root zone conditions, and disease or pest indicators. We follow ISA assessment protocols and provide a written report with recommendations — whether the tree needs treatment, pruning, cabling, or removal. If you’re buying a property, selling one, or just unsure about a tree that doesn’t look right, this is the place to start.
G&V Tree Service in Springfield VA is a family-owned company serving Springfield, VA. Most homeowners don’t need a sales pitch when it comes to trimming, pruning and tree removal. They need someone to look at the situation, tell them what’s going on, and handle it correctly. That’s how we’ve operated since day one, and it’s why customers from decades ago still call us back.
Our team handles the full range of work: tree trimming and tree pruning, large-scale tree removals, hazardous specimens, storm damage cleanup, stump grinding, and commercial site upkeep. We follow ANSI A300 standards on every job. When a tree is genuinely a problem, we remove it safely. When it isn’t, we’ll tell you that too.
From our Springfield base, we serve Alexandria, Fairfax, Arlington, Burke, Annandale, Vienna, Falls Church, Fairfax Station, and surrounding communities throughout Northern Virginia and Maryland.
The same four steps on every job, from one dead limb to a crane removal.
An ISA certified arborist walks the property and checks the tree in person. No charge, no pressure.
You get the price and our honest recommendation, including when a tree doesn't need to come down.
No subcontractors. ANSI A300 cuts, rigging and controlled lowering near structures, and a crane when it's the safer tool.
We haul away the debris. You don't pay until the job is done the way we agreed.
When you hire a tree service, you’re trusting someone to make the right cuts, follow proper safety protocols, and not create a bigger problem than the one you called about. That trust is earned job by job — and it’s the reason G&V Tree Service has been a family-owned operation in Springfield for over 25 years.
Every crew G&V sends to a job site is led by ISA certified arborists trained to ANSI A300 standards. We don’t subcontract work to whoever’s available. The people assessing your trees, making the cuts, and cleaning up afterward are the same professionals who’ve been doing this in Springfield for decades. That’s how we’ve kept government standby contracts and repeat clients from our earliest years to today.
We are fully licensed and insured for residential and commercial tree work across Virginia. Residential or commercial, small job or emergency — the same certified team shows up.
G&V Tree Service is a member of the Tree Care Industry Association (TCIA) and the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA). We are licensed to practice tree care in Virginia and are fully insured specifically for tree work — $1,000,000 in general liability with a $2,000,000 umbrella, plus workers’ compensation and commercial auto coverage. See our Certificate of Insurance here.
Real before-and-after photos from our Springfield jobs, not stock.
We ground the stump out, leveled the spot with the lawn, and blew off the sidewalk before we left.
We cut back the overgrowth and brush and hauled it away, leaving the raised beds clean and ready to plant.
For an oak boxed in by a house, fence and gardens, our climber rigged each section to the crane before cutting, so every piece was lifted up and away. Nothing heavy swung over the roof, and no machinery crossed the lawn.
The exterior of a commercial site is part of the brand. Overgrown trees, dead limbs over parking areas, and storm-damaged canopies create liability exposure and code compliance issues. For property managers, HOAs, and commercial sites across Springfield and the surrounding area, we provide commercial tree removal, commercial tree trimming, utility line clearance, and full-service storm response.
We work with a wide range of commercial clients, including:
We understand that access windows matter, tenants need to be worked around, and a property manager needs a crew that shows up when they say they will. We offer recurring maintenance contracts, one-time clearance projects, and fast storm damage response.
Based in Springfield, VA, our crews work in every Springfield neighborhood, including North Springfield, West Springfield, Newington Forest, Saratoga, Orange Hunt Estates, Cardinal Forest, Rolling Valley and Springfield Estates. We also serve the Northern Virginia communities below. Click a city to see the kind of tree work we do there.
Del Ray's big street oaks, Old Town alleys too narrow for a truck, historic homes a few feet from the trunk. Most Alexandria jobs are rigged removals and careful pruning on tight lots, and we help with the city permit when a tree needs one.
Tree service in Alexandria →Most of Annandale went up between 1940 and the early 1960s, so the shade trees planted with those houses are now 65 to 85 years old and hanging over roofs and cul-de-sacs. Lots backing onto Holmes Run or an Accotink tributary get an RPA check before any cut.
Tree service in Annandale →Small lots, tall trees and power lines running through the canopy. In Arlington we do a lot of pruning around service lines and rigged removals between houses where there's no room to drop anything.
Tree service in Arlington →Ashburn's trees went in with the subdivisions: Ashburn Village in 1987, Broadlands through the 1990s, Brambleton from 2002. Fast-growing nursery stock like Bradford pear is now at the age it starts to split, so structural pruning and storm cleanup are the usual calls.
Tree service in Ashburn →Seven flood-control lakes, from Burke Lake and Lake Braddock to Huntsman Lake, put a lot of Burke yards within 100 feet of protected water. We check the county's RPA map first, then plan the pruning, removal or stump grinding.
Tree service in Burke →From the City of Fairfax out through the surrounding county neighborhoods, we handle seasonal pruning, storm damage and large removals, and bring in a crane when a tree is too big or too close to the house to climb safely.
Tree service in Fairfax →Much of Fairfax Station was zoned for five-acre lots to protect the Occoquan watershed, so homes sit inside mature hardwood stands with long drives under the canopy. Work here means woodland risk assessments, driveway clearance and removals far from the road.
Tree service in Fairfax Station →The City of Falls Church takes its tree rules seriously, and its streets are full of decades-old oaks and maples. We prune ahead of winter storms and handle removals when a big hardwood has been declining from the inside.
Tree service in Falls Church →Franconia splits in two. The 1950s and '60s streets around Franconia Estates and Mount Hebron Park have 60 to 70 year old oaks showing decline, while Kingstowne and Manchester Lakes have developer-planted trees that now need structural correction.
Tree service in Franconia →Big wooded lots along Georgetown Pike and Walker Road, with tall oaks and pines well back from the street. Great Falls jobs often mean climbing and rigging far from truck access, plus fast cleanup after ice and wind storms.
Tree service in Great Falls →Many Lorton back yards border Laurel Hill parkland or the wooded Lower Occoquan, where stand-grown trees are tall and thin with one-sided crowns. The younger trees in Lorton Station and Lorton Valley need shaping instead. We treat them as two different jobs.
Tree service in Lorton →Large lots, mature hardwoods and long driveways. McLean homeowners call us for crown reduction over big rooflines, deadwood removal before storm season and careful removals where the landscaping around the tree has to stay intact.
Tree service in McLean →Commercial sites along Gallows Road sit right next to 1950s neighborhoods like Holmes Run Acres. We maintain parking-lot and screening trees for property managers, and look after seventy-year-old woodland trees on the residential side.
Tree service in Merrifield →Oakton is where Hunter Mill Road curves around a landmark white oak. Before we price a job here, we sort out who controls the tree: you, VDOT along Route 123, or an RPA buffer. Then we prune what can be saved and remove what can't.
Tree service in Oakton →Office campuses, apartment grounds and street trees growing in limited soil under the pavement. In Tysons we schedule around tenants, traffic and access, and keep streetscape trees healthy and clear of signs and walkways.
Tree service in Tysons Corner →Vienna lost 13% of its tree canopy between 2011 and 2021, mostly to teardowns and new builds. We protect mature trees during construction and check on oaks whose roots were damaged when the lot next door was rebuilt.
Tree service in Vienna →We know the local species (red oaks, maples, tulip poplars, Bradford pears) and the permitting rules that affect tree removal and pruning. Fairfax County's rules decide when a permit is actually needed: land disturbance over 2,500 square feet, Resource Protection Areas, trees on a property line or in a right-of-way. We handle the paperwork so you don't have to.
Watch our team complete a professional tree removal project for a Springfield,
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Tree removal is priced per job. Cost depends on size, location relative to structures and utilities, accessibility, and whether stump grinding is included. A small tree in an open West Springfield back yard is a very different job from a large oak leaning over a fence line in North Springfield. We offer free on-site estimates anywhere in 22150, 22151, 22152 and 22153 — call (703) 569-2570 or request one online.
Usually not. Springfield is unincorporated Fairfax County, so there is no separate town permit — county rules apply, and for a single tree on your own residential lot no permit is normally required. That changes if the work disturbs more than 2,500 square feet, if the tree stands in a Resource Protection Area, if it sits on a property line or in a VDOT right-of-way, or if your HOA has its own rules. We check which of those apply to your address before we schedule anything, and we handle the paperwork when a permit is needed. More detail on our Fairfax County tree removal permit page.
Late fall through early spring — the dormant season — is the preferred window for most species growing in Springfield. Dormant pruning reduces stress, limits insect exposure through fresh cuts, and gives wounds time to close before the growing season. Deadwood and hazardous branches should be removed whenever they are found, regardless of season. Some species, including elms, have tighter windows based on disease pressure.
Yes. We operate under government emergency contracts, so our crews are on standby during major weather events — not waiting for the backlog to clear. Springfield is our home base, which means we are usually on site here faster than anywhere else we work, from North Springfield and Franconia through West Springfield and Newington Forest. Call us at (703) 569-2570. Storm-stressed wood can fail days after the initial event — don’t wait.
Yes. We work with insurance companies on tree damage claims regularly. We provide detailed documentation, photos, and estimates that align with what adjusters need. If a tree has fallen on your Springfield home, fence, or vehicle, call us at (703) 569-2570 — we’ll handle the tree work and coordinate with your insurer on the paperwork.
Yes. G&V is fully licensed and insured for residential and commercial tree work in Virginia, and we have been based in Springfield for over 25 years. Crew leads are trained to professional arboricultural standards, and we carry coverage to protect the worksite and our workers. We’ll provide documentation on request — you can view our current certificate of insurance (PDF), or just ask when you call.
We don’t ask for payment until the job is done correctly. That’s not a marketing line — it’s the policy we’ve run on since the beginning. If the work doesn’t meet what we agreed to, we come back and make it right. Every time.
G&V Tree Service holds a satisfaction guarantee on every job we take on. Free on-site estimates with honest pricing, no hidden fees, and no pressure. We’ll tell you what work is actually needed — and what isn’t. Customers from decades ago still call us back, and that track record matters more to us than any advertising claim.
See what our customers have to say — read verified reviews from homeowners and property managers across Springfield and the surrounding communities.
Hazardous removal, routine trimming, a stump that's been there too long, or storm damage you need assessed. We'll come out, take a look, and tell you honestly what needs to happen and what it will cost.
Call the office(703) 569-2570Serving Springfield, Alexandria, Annandale, Arlington, Ashburn, Burke, Fairfax, Fairfax Station, Falls Church, Franconia, Great Falls, Lorton, McLean, Merrifield, Oakton, Tysons Corner and Vienna. Residential and commercial work for over 25 years.
