Frequency and strength of wind-induced disasters expose a growing tendency with the global climate change. The management and protection of trees and urban greening are becoming an important issue. This paper summarizes and analyzes the mechanism of wind-induced disaster and application progress of lodging of trees. The contents included experimental and model research of wind-induced disaster mechanism of trees at domestic and abroad, and the assessment parameters of trees lodging and corresponding preventive measures as well. Some key issues relevant to this topic were then analyzed. The importance of finite element modelling and the necessity to consider the randomness of wind loads and trees parameters were emphasized. The critical remark is that how to integrate the concept of risk management with the research of wind-induced lodging of trees in the current framework of hazard management,which underlies the wind-resistance policy of trees and would be one of the important components of urban construction.