Abstract:As the backbone tree species of road greening, street trees play an irreplaceable role inbeautifying the city and improving the ecological environment. Due to the complexity ofthe urban environment and the growth characteristics of street trees, the safety of streettrees faces many challenges. In order to scientifically evaluate the safety of street trees onShennan Avenue in Shenzhen, this paper uses Visual Tree Assessment (VTA) and instrumentDetection Method to determine the safety indexes of street trees on Shennan Avenue, suchas tree appearance, species, internal damage rate of trunk, site environment and rootgrowth, and carry out sub-item evaluation and overall evaluation. The results showed thatthe main trunks of the street trees had different degrees of hollow rot, and some of thetrees had poor standing habitats and poor root growth. The diameter at breast height hada highly significant positive correlation with the degree of internal damage and externadamage (P<0.01), tree height had a highly significant positive correlation with the degreeof internal damage (P<0.01) and has a significant positive correlation with the degree ofexternal damage (P<0.05), and crown width only had a significant positive correlation withthe degree of external damage (P<0.05). Finally, this paper proposes management andprotection suggestions such as selecting appropriate tree species, regular pruning andtrimming, strengthening soil moisture and nutrient management, and controlling pests anddiseases, to improve the city's ability to prevent and resist safety risks such as tree fall andbreakage.