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Groundhog Removal: Protecting Your Property From Destructive Burrowers
Often underestimated, groundhogs can inflict significant damage to your property with their extensive burrowing and gnawing habits. From destroying valuable landscaping and fruit trees to compromising the very foundation of your structures, their presence poses serious risks. Modern Pest Services offers expert groundhog removal and control, implementing effective strategies to safely eliminate these disruptive burrowers and secure your property from their destructive activities.
Our wildlife removal services delivers results through:
Thorough Site Assessment
Our Wildlife Team professional evaluates your property to determine the extent of groundhog activity, analyzing existing damage, droppings, and burrowing patterns.
Targeted Exclusion Techniques
We implement strategic trenching and other exclusion methods around your structure’s foundation to deter groundhogs and prevent them from compromising building integrity.
Safe Trapping & Removal
Groundhogs are safely trapped and humanely removed from your yard and property, ensuring effective and responsible elimination of nuisance wildlife.
Damage & Hazard Analysis
Our assessment includes evaluating damage to fruit trees and ornamental shrubs caused by gnawing, and identifying entrance holes that pose dangers to humans and animals.
Your Property, Free From Groundhog Damage
Preserve Structural Integrity
Prevent extensive burrowing near foundations from compromising the structural integrity of your buildings, avoiding costly repairs.
Long-Term Property Health
Ensure your property remains free from groundhog infestations, contributing to its overall health and aesthetic appeal without ongoing damage.
Eliminate Safety Hazards
Remove dangerous entrance holes to groundhog burrows that can pose tripping hazards for humans and animals on your property.
Safeguard Landscape & Gardens
Protect your valuable fruit trees, ornamental shrubs, and lawns from destructive gnawing and digging habits that can quickly destroy vegetation.
Why Groundhogs Are a Problem for Homes and Businesses
Groundhogs may seem harmless, but they can become a serious problem when they burrow beneath or around homes, sheds, decks, barns, porches, and other structures. Their tunnels can undermine the soil supporting these areas, create tripping hazards, and provide protected spaces where wildlife can shelter close to your property.
While groundhogs also feed on gardens, flowers, and other vegetation, professional wildlife removal is typically recommended when their activity is affecting a structure or creating safety concerns around your property.
Commercial properties can face similar challenges. Burrows near building foundations, walkways, retaining walls, loading areas, or landscaped entrances can create liability concerns and ongoing maintenance issues. For property managers, schools, healthcare facilities, hospitality businesses, and office properties, addressing structural wildlife activity early can help protect both the property and the people who use it.
For businesses with recurring exterior pest pressure, Modern Pest Services also provides commercial pest control programs tailored to the property’s needs and ongoing pest risks.
Groundhogs Burrowing Beneath Structures
Groundhogs commonly feed on vegetables, flowers, grasses, clover, and other vegetation. Although this feeding can damage gardens and landscaping, these situations do not always require professional wildlife removal.
Our groundhog services are primarily focused on animals that have established burrows beneath or adjacent to structures, where they can create greater risks to the property.
Damage to Landscaping and Gardens
Groundhogs feed on grasses, clover, vegetables, flowers, herbs, berries, and the tender growth of ornamental shrubs and young trees. A single groundhog can quickly damage gardens and landscaping that have taken years to establish.
In addition to feeding, groundhogs create worn paths between their burrows and food sources, while the soil they excavate can disrupt flower beds, lawns, mulch, landscape edging, and other outdoor features. In some cases, their digging may also disturb irrigation systems or underground utilities installed beneath landscaped areas.
While damage to gardens and landscaping alone does not always require professional wildlife removal, it may indicate that a groundhog has established a burrow nearby. When burrows are located beneath or adjacent to homes, sheds, decks, retaining walls, or other structures, professional removal and exclusion can help prevent more extensive property damage.
Safety Hazards Around Your Property
Groundhog burrow entrances can be difficult to spot, especially in tall grass or dense landscaping. These openings can create tripping hazards for homeowners, visitors, employees, tenants, children, pets, and livestock.
When groundhogs have burrowed beneath or near a structure, removing the animal and helping prevent future access can reduce ongoing wildlife activity and allow the affected area to be addressed appropriately.
Properties with heavy pedestrian traffic may require prompt attention to help maintain safe outdoor spaces. Modern Pest Services can support these settings through targeted wildlife service as well as related programs for property management pest control, school pest control, healthcare facility pest control, and hospitality pest control.
If you’ve noticed groundhog burrows near your home or commercial building, our wildlife specialists can inspect the property, recommend the most appropriate solution, and help protect your property from continued damage.
Signs You May Need Groundhog Removal
Groundhog activity often goes unnoticed until burrows or structural concerns become visible. You may need professional wildlife removal if you notice:
- A groundhog entering or exiting beneath a deck, porch, shed, barn, or other structure
- Large burrow openings, typically 10 to 12 inches wide
- Fresh soil around foundations, retaining walls, patios, or structural edges
- Burrows located near buildings, walkways, or other structures
- Soil settling around sheds, porches, decks, or foundations
- Repeated daytime sightings of a groundhog around your home or business
- Damage to gardens or landscaping occurring alongside burrows near structures
Because tunnel systems are often much larger than they appear from the surface, it’s best to schedule an inspection before attempting to fill burrows or remove the animal yourself. Closing an active burrow without removing the groundhog can lead to additional problems.
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