My family has a house on 2.5 acres in a beetle area, it's cost us thousands in tree removal. The lumberjack boss claims the Feds, fearing environmentalist wrath, stopped clearing out beetlekill on Federal land, where the vermin incubated until the drought.
The feds also fear the Sierra Club lawyers, so they often do nothing but wait for the trees to die, then burn.
Sad.
Sorry about your own trees.