Best Choice Products 9 ft Pre-Lit Aspen Tree: 3,880 Tips, 1,200 Lights and a 64 Inch Skirt

Per foot, per inch, per square foot

Our arithmetic on the maker's figures. The tree size calculator runs the same check for your own ceiling.

The Aspen's page in a table

From the maker's product page, read November 14, 2026. A line that says "not stated" is a number the maker does not publish.

How the Aspen scores, criterion by criterion

Scores judge what the maker states, not a tree we set up. How we score.

A big room and a heavy ornament box

A full 9 ft tree suits an open living room, a stairwell or a hall with a high ceiling, and a household that puts many ornaments on the tree. Smaller rooms should look at a slimmer 9 ft tree in the 9 ft ranking. The tree also sits in the pre-lit list and the overall list.

Is a 9 ft tree with 3,880 tips and 1,200 lights as dense as it sounds?

Yes: 431 tips and 133 lights per foot, and the same line gets denser as it gets taller.

The page gives the counts for five sizes of the same Aspen, which lets us see the line as a whole. Per foot of height the tips climb from 375 at 6 ft to 431 at 9 ft and 633 at 15 ft, and the lights climb from 75 to 133 to 160. The 9 ft tree is the one that crosses our top rung, 400 tips per foot, for fullness.

More tips per foot also means more weight on the stand: 44.5 lb across 9 ft is 4.9 lb per foot, and every tip you add in a heavier tree is one more branch to fluff by hand.

Counts from the maker's page; per-foot figures are our division, read November 14, 2026.

How much ceiling and floor does a 108 inch tree on a 64 inch base take?

A ceiling of 9 ft 9 in with a topper, and a clear circle of 6 ft 4 in on the floor.

Because the 108 in includes the stand, the sum is short: 108 in plus a 9 in topper is 117 in, or 9 ft 9 in. A 64 in base covers 22.3 sq ft of floor, and with 6 in of walking room on each side the clear circle is 76 in across, or 31.5 sq ft.

The tree can still be placed in a corner, but a 64 in skirt will touch two walls long before its center does. Pull the tree out from the walls, and keep it at least three feet from a heater or fireplace, which is the NFPA's own distance. The tree size calculator shows your own ceiling.

Our arithmetic: ceiling minus 117 in. A hanging light fixture can lower the usable height.

How can a PE and PVC tree be listed as a PVC tree?

The bullets say PE and PVC; the spec sheet says PVC; no share is given.

Listing fields often disagree. This one calls the foliage a premium PE and PVC mix, then lists the material as polyvinyl chloride in the table, then writes 3,880 PE and PVC branch tips in its item highlight. We read that as a mixed tree whose spec table lists only the main material. What we cannot read is how much of it is molded PE, the part that looks most like needles.

The same page also blends names: the title says Aspen, the first bullet says Aspen Noble Fir, the table says Fir. For how PE and PVC differ, see PE vs PVC.

The maker's page on amazon.com, read November 14, 2026.

What does the cordless light system change about fluffing this Aspen?

Fluffing alone takes 1 to 1.5 hours, and the tree weighs 44.5 lb.

The page calls assembly three steps: stack the sections, fluff, plug in the base. Fluffing is the long part, and the listing gives a time for every size from 30 to 45 minutes at 6 ft to over 2 hours at 15 ft. Plan on 1 to 1.5 hours for this one, and do it before you decorate: with 3,880 tips, a branch bent flat is easier to notice with the lights on than with ornaments hanging from it. Spread the tips of each branch in different directions so that no two neighbors point the same way, and leave the top section for last.

The cordless light system is the useful detail. Each section carries its own connection, so there are no plugs to find between levels. The page does not say whether the branches are hinged, and the word hinged appears nowhere, so check how the branches attach before you order.

• Stack the sections from the bottom, and at 44.5 lb ask for a second pair of hands
• Fluff each branch tip outward, starting low, and give the aspen shape time to settle, because a tree this tall hides gaps until the lights are on
• Plug the base cord into the wall and check that every section lights before you hang a single ornament

What does the page say about safety marks, a warranty and recalls?

Flame retardant is written; UL, ETL and CSA are not; no warranty; no CPSC recall found for the brand.

A UL, ETL or CSA mark says an independent laboratory tested the lights to a safety standard. The 9 ft Aspen's page does not write one, which is why safety marks score only 5. Micro LEDs run cooler than old incandescent bulbs, and that earns a point, but a cooler bulb is not a tested one. Lighting or electrical equipment was involved in 44 percent of home tree fires in NFPA's 2016 to 2020 count, so read the cord tag for a mark when the box arrives, and unplug the tree at night.

No warranty is written. We searched the CPSC recall database by title and maker for Best Choice Products on November 14, 2026 and found no tree recall.

The height includes the stand

What the page backs with numbers

• 431 tips per foot of height, a 10 on our fullness ladder, which starts at 400
• 133 lights per foot, twice the 67 per foot of the Hykolity 9 ft PE tree
• Overall size stated with the stand included: no guessing about the ceiling
• A cordless light connection between sections, so there are no plugs to find
• Weight (44.5 lb) and model number (SKY8589) printed

What the page does not say

• No UL, ETL or CSA mark is written, only flame-retardant tips
• No warranty line, a 5 on warranty and information
• No share of PE is given, though the bullets call the foliage PE and PVC

Choose it when you have

• Have 9 ft 9 in or more of ceiling and a 76 in circle of floor that can go to the tree
• Hang heavy ornaments and garland and want thick, stiff branches under them
• Accept that the page prints no UL mark and no warranty, and will check the tag on the cord yourself

The verdict on the 9 ft Aspen