--- title: Your Christmas Tree Could Be More Expensive This Year description: Tree shortages and droughts could cause the price of Christmas trees around the nation to spike during this holiday season. authors: - name: Kerry Close url: https://money.com/author/kerry-close/ at_money_since: 2016 articles: 182 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/kerryclose former_staff: true published: '2016-12-01T21:56:42.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T04:43:00.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - christmas - Christmas Tree - onetime word_count: 214 canonical: https://money.com/christmas-tree-price-increase/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![Christmas trees are discarded in Prioty](https://img.money.com/2016/12/gettyimages-72929694.jpg) *Christmas trees may be more expensive this year.* It might not be the most wonderful time of the year to buy a Christmas tree. Tree shortages—brought on by droughts and other environmental problems—could be driving up the price of the centerpiece of your holiday decor, [Consumerist reported](https://consumerist.com/2016/11/30/you-could-end-up-paying-more-for-your-christmas-tree-this-year/). In particular, the rising cost of trees in Oregon and elsewhere in the [Pacific Northwest](http://www.kgw.com/money/business/why-you-could-pay-more-for-a-christmas-tree-in-oregon-this-year/357102012) could hike prices nationwide, since that region supplies to buyers from out of state. Dan Bollander—who was grown trees in drought-stricken Southern California for the past 37 years—[told CBS Los Angeles](http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2016/11/29/christmas-tree-shortage-in-socal-blamed-on-previous-oversupply/) prices spiked by 10% this year. He said that's in part due to a previous national overabundance of trees, which caused many sellers, including in the Pacific Northwest, to leave the business or sell fewer frees. Meanwhile, sellers in West Virginia [told NBC affiliate WJAC](http://wjactv.com/news/local/christmas-tree-prices-rise) that prices for supplies on which farmers rely, including fertilizer and fuel, have risen over the past year. As a result, the price tag on trees jumped by about 3%. In Tennessee—which has been ravaged by wildfires that destroyed vegetation—buyers can expect less variety of trees, according to [WJHL.com](http://wjhl.com/2016/11/27/drought-causes-plant-deaths-at-christmas-tree-farm-business-still-booming/). Still, growers say that business has been relatively steady. And in Alabama, which has also grappled with drought, prices have remained unaffected, though trees might be slightly smaller than normal this year, [WHNT News reported](http://whnt.com/2016/11/28/live-christmas-tree-have-been-impacted-by-the-drought/). ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/christmas-tree-price-increase/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Family", "item": "https://money.com/family/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Your Christmas Tree Could Be More Expensive This Year" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/christmas-tree-price-increase/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/christmas-tree-price-increase/", "name": "Your Christmas Tree Could Be More Expensive This Year", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-12-01T21:56:42.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/christmas-tree-price-increase/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/christmas-tree-price-increase/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-04-17T04:43:00.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Your Christmas Tree Could Be More Expensive This Year", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/12/gettyimages-72929694.jpg", "width": 2500, "height": 1599, "caption": "Christmas trees are discarded in Prioty" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kerry Close", "url": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/kerry-close/#author", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/kerryclose" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-12-01T21:56:42.000Z", "description": "Tree shortages and droughts could cause the price of Christmas trees around the nation to spike during this holiday season.", "abstract": "Tree shortages and droughts could cause the price of Christmas trees around the nation to spike during this holiday season.", "@id": "https://money.com/christmas-tree-price-increase/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-04-17T04:43:00.000Z", "wordCount": 214, "keywords": [ "christmas", "Christmas Tree", "onetime" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Family", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family" ] } ] } ] } ```