I maintain a forrest around the house with just enough shade to make the undervegation grow with berries and such. Once per year I just walk around, remove small saplings, do some chainsawing of larger things and take down one tree. That's all. The tree is a quite a lot of work when you do not know how to handle it but it gets easier every year in the beginning.

This is not considered a fire hazard here, but yeah we do not have that many trees close to the house.