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With the different spring we have had are anyone else’s fruit trees dying? I have two Apple trees that look like they are dying. And a pear tree that also looks sick. My other Apple tree is doing good as well as my cherry trees. I don’t think they got a touch of spray.

Mine was dead last year. I talked to an arborist and he said to leave it a year as it might come back. This year its still dead. It no longer has the protection from the elements it used to have as a bunch of bush was cut down.  
 
Weird thing is there are shoots coming up from the ground, which makes me think the roots are fine. So I'm not sure whether to have it all removed or just cut down the dead tree and wait years for the shoots to develop into a new one.

The shoots from below the graft will not produce fruit.

Ours are definitely struggling as well. Older established Apple tree has branches that are dead

Mixed results here. We had one 4-5 year old tree try to bud out that never made it. A Cherry tree that had similar symptoms and only had I'd say about 20% of life on the branches. Dug both out over the past week.  
 
At the other end of the spectrum I have a dwarf apple tree that has I bet 18 inches of new growth all around this year... have never seen it so happy!  
 
Mind posting a picture cotr... closer up of the tree and where the buds would've been?

I will get a picture.. the leafs all came out normal then just dried up. I looked under the bark and it has all turned brown , not green like it should be

We have the same issue but you can see where leaves started to bud but i think it was the frost we had a couple months back

My Apple tree

My other Apple tree

And my pear tree

Could be fire blight affecting the trees which is what happened to mine. Have to cut them down & burn EVERYTHING.

It must be a disease of some kind? Both our trees are on pace to have a bumper crop. I haven't noticed any trees in my immediate area that are like pictured/described.  
 
I'm curious to know what part of town all those who are affected are in?

I’d say mine (1 Evans Cherry, 1 Apple) were about halfway between your two Apple trees. Some green was starting to push out and then game over. Based on fine webbing in a lot of places on both trees I’ve been told spider mites but still open to other possibilities alongside them. Do you have anything that looks like that when you look up close?  
 
The thing with my cherry tree is it picked up canker disease last year that was noticably worse this year from a lot of points along the branches. Two smaller branches did have leafs, one of them setting a small amount of fruit and the rest with the problem. It suckers bad at the best of times but even it’s suckers didn’t fire off.  
 
I have another young Honeycrisp Apple about 12 feet away from the Apple that I had to pull out and it’s perfectly happy. Then two dwarf apples maybe 50 feet away that are singing as far as new growth and fruit set.  
 
Whether or not it had any impact, this spring was crazy late as far as the bloom even on trees that are fully healthy... I’d say a week and a half to two weeks for me.  
 
Here’s a closeup from earlier this spring of a sucker off the cherry that I’d allowed to mature last year. Rest of the problem spots on the tree looked similar as did the entire apple  
 
Edited by Adam, 2019-07-04 22:18:31

We are in the southend of the city

These pictures don't look like fireblight. Fireblight looks like a fire burned the branches, tips first.  
 
I wonder if it has to do with the strength of the tree and how dry it was this spring. It is supposed to be the driest on record (I am sure with the exception of the dirty 30s).  
 
If you check under the bark to see if it still green...and it is, it could come back. A tree can lose leaves once in a season due to various reasons and grow new ones for a second time. Twice losing...it won't come back.  
 
Giving it a pruning and/or stressing the tree might give it a signal to send out new growth. You should be able to find good instructions online on how to do this. It involves cutting a section of roots every so often as you go around the tree.  
 
If you take a sample & pictures into a nursery to get their take, make sure that the samples are in sealed zip lock bags.  
 
Edited by Flutterby, 2019-07-05 10:33:24

It is brown under the bark moving towards the trunk on the branches that look dead