The Ranking
Our top 6 tree services in Winnipeg
Winnipeg is an elm city. Boulevards and older yards in St. Vital, River Heights, Wolseley and Crescentwood are shaded by American elms, and the City of Winnipeg says Dutch elm disease is the biggest threat to its urban forest, with upwards of 6,000 elms removed from public land every year. Emerald ash borer is the second worry. The City first found it in Winnipeg in 2017 and reported a new group of infected ash in early 2026, so ash on private lots is worth having checked. Prairie winds, heavy wet snow and summer thunderstorms bring most of the emergency calls, and a green ash leaning over a garage is a different job from a spruce that needs thinning.\n\nCheck who owns the tree first. The City prunes and removes boulevard trees and says residents who want to hire a private contractor for a City-owned tree must follow its guidelines for maintaining City-owned trees with a contractor, so call 311 before anyone cuts a boulevard tree. The rules we found cover trees the City owns. For trees on your own property, ask any company whether Winnipeg restricts the work, since pruning elms in the warm months is limited to slow the spread of Dutch elm disease, and confirm current dates with 311.\n\nManitoba does not give tree services a single trade licence we could find, but several of the companies below state that people who prune for others must be licensed arborists in the province. The usual proof is paper. Ask for the arborist's Manitoba licence and ISA certification number, which you can look up through the International Society of Arboriculture's Find an Arborist tool, a Workers Compensation Board clearance letter and a liability insurance certificate. Get the quote in writing with cleanup and stump grinding listed, and walk away from anyone who offers to top a tree.\n\nEach company below states its own credentials on its website. We list what they say and flag what we could not find. Several of these firms work from small offices in residential neighbourhoods, and a few sites publish no street address at all, which we note in the entries.
