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title: "Emergency Storm Response in Knoxville, TN — Leo's Tree Service"
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description: "Emergency storm damage response in Knoxville, Maynardville and across East Tennessee. A tree down on your house or drive cannot wait. Call 865-360-6685."
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# Emergency Storm Response

The phone goes to an owner. Not to an answering service, not to a queue, and not to a call centre three states away. That is the whole promise, and it is the reason this page exists. We take these calls across Knoxville, Maynardville and the surrounding counties.

**What counts as an emergency.** A tree on the house or the roof. A tree across the driveway with a car behind it. A limb hanging over where people walk. A trunk leaning into a line. If you are looking at something and wondering whether it can wait, call and describe it — we would rather talk you through it than have you climb a ladder to find out.

**What we will not do.** We do not touch a tree that is on a power line. Nobody should, and a company that offers to is telling you something about how it works. That is a call to the utility first, and we will say so. Once the line is dead or clear, the tree is ours.

**What happens when you call.** One of us picks up and asks what you are looking at. A photo by text helps more than any description — the number takes pictures. If it is genuinely unsafe we will tell you which part of the house to stay out of. Then we come and clear it.

**What storms actually do here.** Across Union, Grainger and Campbell counties the record is not tornadoes; it is downbursts, saturated ground and ice. Ordinary summer thunderstorms uproot healthy trees when the soil is already full of water. The county storm log reads the same way year after year — multiple trees down across the county — and one entry is a photograph of a tree lying across two vehicles and a mobile home. Knox County is a different story, with a documented EF-2 in August 2023 that ran from Hardin Valley to Middlebrook Pike and put sixty thousand customers in the dark.

**Being honest about this page.** Every other service on this site is backed by completed jobs you can read. Storm callouts are the exception — they happen at night, in the rain, with a homeowner standing in the yard, and nobody stops to write an estimate or take photographs. So there is no case study here yet. What there is: three owners, a phone that gets answered, and the same insurance and standards that apply to everything else we do.

[See what homeowners say about our emergency storm response — 5.0 stars on Google](https://leos-treeservice.com/reviews/)

## Other services

- [Tree Removal](https://leos-treeservice.com/tree-removal/): Full removal of hazardous, dead or unwanted trees, including tight-access work near structures, septic fields and power lines.
- [Tree Pruning & Trimming](https://leos-treeservice.com/tree-pruning/): Structural pruning and canopy work that leaves the tree better able to hold itself up, not a chainsaw and a guess.
- [Wood Chipping](https://leos-treeservice.com/wood-chipping/): On-site chipping so the brush pile leaves with us instead of sitting in your yard until spring.

## Get a free estimate

- Get my free estimate: https://clienthub.getjobber.com/hubs/26c1e4ea-89d1-4f45-850c-eec90cc882b8/public/requests/5078409/new
- Call [865-360-6685](tel:+18653606685) (Mon–Sat 7:00a–6:00p)
- Leo's Tree Service, LLC — Maynardville, TN 37807