Emerald ash borer was confirmed at a private home in Silverton in June 2026. If you own an ash tree here, this is no longer a question about somewhere else.
Call (971) 518-3780Describe the tree — rough trunk size, how much canopy is left, what is standing underneath it — and you will get a straight answer on removal, treatment, or waiting. Call (971) 518-3780.
In June 2026, emerald ash borer was confirmed at a private home in Silverton — a Marion County detection, roughly fifteen miles from downtown Salem, and one of a cluster of June 2026 finds that also included Tualatin and Newberg. For Silverton ash tree owners this changes the calculus from a regional headline to a local fact.
Silverton takes its name from Silver Creek, which rises up at Silver Falls and runs straight through the middle of town on its way to the Pudding River. Downtown looks out over it from North Water Street. That creek corridor, and the drainages that feed it out of the foothills below Silver Falls State Park, are exactly the wet, slow-water ground Oregon ash favors — so Silverton has both a confirmed infestation and a lot of ash near water.
The decision is the same one described on the emerald ash borer page, with a shorter fuse. Walk out and check the four signs: thinning at the top of the crown, D-shaped exit holes about an eighth of an inch across, pale woodpecker flecking on the upper trunk, and sprouts pushing out of the trunk and root flare. Suspected finds go to the Oregon Department of Agriculture at 1-866-INVADER.
Then decide: treat a healthy, valuable ash tree on a repeating two-year cycle, or remove it while it is still alive and the work is conventional. Silverton is Marion County, so the quarantine and the riparian permit rules both apply, and Silver Creek runs close enough to a lot of properties to matter.
Free assessment, a real number, and an honest answer about whether it needs to happen this year.
(971) 518-3780The same Salem-area bands apply: roughly $450 to $900 for an ash tree under 12 inches through the trunk, $800 to $1,600 from 12 to 20 inches, $1,400 to $2,600 from 20 to 30 inches, and $2,200 to $4,500 or more above 30 inches. Access and how dead the ash tree already is move a Silverton quote more than the town it is in. Full detail on the cost page.
Yes. Oregon's permanent quarantine covers Washington, Yamhill, Marion, Clackamas and Multnomah counties, and Silverton is in Marion County. Ash, white fringetree and olive material may not be moved out of the zone. Ask any contractor where your ash wood and chips are going, and confirm current rules with the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
Silverton is a regular part of the service area, along with Salem, Keizer, Silverton, Woodburn, Stayton, Turner, Aumsville, Sublimity, Mt. Angel, Jefferson and the surrounding Marion and Polk County communities.
No. Ash tree assessments and removal estimates are free, and that includes being told the tree does not need to come down yet if that is the honest answer.
It varies with the season. Late summer and early fall are the calmest stretch of the year for Salem-area tree crews; after any winter ice event the whole valley is booked at once. Active hazards are triaged ahead of scheduled work.