Land Clearing Cost Per Acre: A 2026 Public Bid Data Study

What are the key land clearing cost statistics?

1. $47,528.63 per plan acre— the Florida Department of Transportation's 2025 historical report normalized $145,147,487.73 in awarded Clearing & Grubbing lump-sum amounts across 3,053.896 plan acres and 261 contracts. FDOT's governing specification makes item 0110-1-1 a lump-sum pay item, so this is a normalized historical bid-price benchmark, not a direct acre-measured unit bid or a private-land price. (Florida DOT, reports and specification verified July 23, 2026.)
2. $250 to $12,000+ per acre — the outer span stated by the eight publishers in this nine-publisher audit that displayed a per-acre figure, a difference of at least 48-fold before any scope adjustment. Homewyse displayed only a square-foot starting range. (Angi, HomeAdvisor, LawnStarter, HomeGuide, Fixr, Bob Vila, Lawn Love, OWNR OPS and Homewyse; pages verified July 23, 2026.)
3. 174.2 times — the endpoint span inside one HomeAdvisor sentence that states both $1.30–$2.00 per square foot and $500–$5,600 per acre. At 43,560 square feet per acre, the square-foot figures convert arithmetically to $56,628–$87,120 per acre; HomeAdvisor does not explain the unit or scope boundary on the reviewed page. (HomeAdvisor, updated June 17, 2026; verified July 23, 2026.)
4. $39,600, $75,000 and $127,200 per acre— the three unit prices submitted for the same 0.250-acre Clearing & Grubbing item on New York State Thruway contract D215024, a 3.21-fold spread on one item in one letting. (New York State Thruway Authority bid tabulation, letting October 15, 2025; verified July 23, 2026.)
5. $18,216.59 per plan acre — FDOT Market Area 06, covering Alachua, Marion and Volusia counties, normalized $662,173.08 across 36.350 plan acres and 11 contracts for the twelve months ending May 31, 2026. That benchmark is 61.7% below the statewide calendar-2025 benchmark, but the periods and contract mixes differ. (Florida DOT, report run June 22, 2026; verified July 23, 2026.)
6. $7,500.00 per acre— Tennessee DOT's 2025 average for acre-measured Clearing & Grubbing item 201-01.03 across 13.00 acres; every acre-measured observation in the report was in Region 4. (Tennessee DOT, Average Unit Prices for awarded contracts, January 1–December 31, 2025; verified July 23, 2026.)
7. 11.7 plan acres per contract — the mean plan-area denominator in FDOT's 2025 statewide record for the 261 contracts containing item 0110-1-1: 3,053.896 plan acres divided by 261 contracts. It is not a measurement of parcel shape or the physical size of each highway project. (Florida DOT; calculation verified July 23, 2026.)
8. 0 of 9 reviewed publishers exposed the row-level project observations and calculation needed to independently reproduce the headline per-acre figure on the reviewed page. Several described broad data sources or editorial methods, but none published the underlying price rows there. (Ocala Land Clearing Research publisher-page audit, July 23, 2026.)
9. Five named source publications — Bob Vila's February 28, 2023 guide names Angi, HomeAdvisor, Fixr, HomeGuide and LawnStarter as sources. Its current page states $250–$1,000 per acre generally and $500–$5,600 for tree clearing; the 2023 versions of the source pages were not reconstructed in this audit. (Bob Vila, verified July 23, 2026.)
10. The identical $500–$5,600 per-acre range appears on Angi and HomeAdvisor. Angi Inc.'s 2025 Form 10-K identifies Angi and HomeAdvisor among its brands, so those two matching figures are not independent corporate observations. (Angi, HomeAdvisor and Angi Inc. Form 10-K; verified July 23, 2026.)
11. Two different Angi ranges appear on one current page — $1,396–$6,167 per acre in the cost summary and $500–$5,600 per acre in the body. The reviewed page does not visibly reconcile them. (Angi, updated March 17, 2026; verified July 23, 2026.)
12. $38,768.40 to $63,162 per acre — the arithmetic conversion of Homewyse's May 2026 starting range of $0.89–$1.45 per square foot. Homewyse labels that scope as basic clearing of plants, shrubs and overgrowth and says tree removal is extra; it does not state the converted acre figures. (Homewyse; conversion verified July 23, 2026.)
13. $31,832.63 per acre — FDOT's 2025 quantity-weighted average for acre-measured Selective Clearing and Grubbing in areas with trees to remain, across 25 contracts and 31.810 acres. (Florida DOT, item 0110-2-2; report run April 2, 2026; verified July 23, 2026.)
14. 1,025 to 1— FDOT's $47,528.63 normalized Clearing & Grubbing benchmark divided by its separate $46.36-per-acre mowing average in the same statewide report. The two pay items have different scopes, payment bases and denominators; the ratio demonstrates why "mowing," "vegetation cutting" and "clearing and grubbing" cannot share one price. (Florida DOT; calculation verified July 23, 2026.)
15. No state or Marion County license is required for tree trimming and removal service providers as such. Marion County also states that its Occupational License Ordinance was repealed effective October 1, 2006. This narrow statement does not decide permits, environmental approvals or licensing for related trades. (Marion County, Tree service information; verified July 23, 2026.)

How much does land clearing cost per acre in 2026?

There is no defensible single national figure for land clearing cost per acre. The public records in this study include an acre-measured Tennessee DOT average of $7,500, three acre-measured New York Thruway bids from $39,600 to $127,200, and an FDOT historical benchmark of $47,528.63 that was normalized from lump-sum clearing items by plan acreage. Current publisher pages state per-acre figures from $250 to $12,000+, but their scopes and methods differ.

That gap is the central finding. Public agencies and cost publishers use the same words for different purchases, different payment bases and different evidence.

The FDOT figure is high partly because the pay item is a specified highway-construction obligation. FDOT's standard specification covers removal and disposal work required within defined project limits, and the payment for item 0110-1-1 is lump sum. The historical report then displays plan acreage and produces a normalized benchmark from total awarded amounts and total plan acreage.

The publisher figures describe residential, rural, forestry, grading and site-preparation scopes with different boundaries. Some are broad summaries built from customer or estimate data; some are editorial cost guides; some are calculators; and some combine clearing with grading or preparation. The reviewed pages do not expose the row-level observations needed to reproduce their headline per-acre figures.

None of these numbers tells a landowner what a particular parcel will cost. Together, they show why a per-acre number is only useful when its scope, denominator, source and date travel with it.

For Ocala and Marion County permit screening, see the local permit guide. For scope comparisons relevant to a service request, see the land-clearing services overview.

Why do published land clearing cost guides disagree?

The nine publishers reviewed for this study use different definitions, units and evidence. Eight state at least one per-acre figure, with outer endpoints from $250 to $12,000+; three also state square-foot figures, but those square-foot figures do not always describe the same scope as the acre figures. The defensible finding is not that every difference is a contradiction. It is that a reader cannot reconcile the headline figures from the visible source rows because those rows are not published on the reviewed pages.

Three findings survive a source-by-source audit.

One current page contains a true unit-reconciliation problem. HomeAdvisor states $1.30–$2.00 per square foot and $500–$5,600 per acre in the same sentence. The square-foot endpoints convert to $56,628–$87,120 per acre, creating a 174.2-fold span from the lowest stated acre endpoint to the highest converted endpoint. The page does not explain the unit or scope boundary there.

Other large differences are scope differences, not clean contradictions. LawnStarter labels its square-foot range as clearing and preparing land for construction. Homewyse limits its starting range to plants, shrubs and overgrowth and treats tree removal as extra. Fixr's $1–$43-per-square-foot span combines multiple steps. Those figures should not be collapsed into one clearing rate.

The reproducibility gap remains. Angi and HomeAdvisor say they use thousands of customer records and other research; HomeGuide says its cost data tracks millions of estimates; other pages describe editorial or market inputs. None of the nine reviewed publisher pages displays the row-level project observations and calculation needed to independently reproduce its headline per-acre figure.

Corporate and source relationships also matter. Angi and HomeAdvisor both state $500–$5,600 per acre, and Angi Inc.'s current Form 10-K identifies both brands within the same company. Bob Vila names five other cost-guide publishers as sources. A repeated number can therefore reflect shared ownership or source reuse rather than independent convergence.

What do public bids show about land clearing cost per acre?

Public construction records provide named pay items, quantities, awarded amounts and dates, but they still require careful interpretation. Tennessee's 201-01.03 and New York's 201.07 are directly acre-measured. FDOT's 0110-1-1 is different: its historical report displays acres and a weighted average, while the governing specification and a contemporary bid tab establish that contractors bid the item lump sum.

Why the FDOT label required correction

FDOT's 2025 historical report labels item 0110-1-1 with an AC quantity and a weighted average of $47,528.63. FDOT's FY2024-25 Standard Specification 110-11.1 states that the paid quantity for Clearing and Grubbing is the lump-sum quantity, and a current FDOT bid tab shows the item as AC (LS) with a note that parentheses identify lump-sum bidding.

The statewide figure is reproducible:

$145,147,487.73 total awarded amount ÷ 3,053.896 displayed plan acres
= $47,528.62826...
= $47,528.63 per plan acre after rounding

The Market Area 06 figure is reproducible the same way:

$662,173.08 ÷ 36.350 displayed plan acres
= $18,216.59092...
= $18,216.59 per plan acre after rounding

The accurate label is therefore normalized awarded lump-sum amount per plan acre. Calling it an acre-measured unit bid, an amount actually paid per acre, or a private-property clearing average would misstate the source.

The table supplies scope context. FDOT's normalized Clearing & Grubbing benchmark is about 1,025 times its separate mowing average, but those pay items do not measure the same work, contracts or denominator. A price without a scope label is not a usable comparison.

Why did three bidders price the same 0.250-acre item at $39,600, $75,000 and $127,200 per acre?

The New York State Thruway Authority's October 15, 2025 tabulation records three unit prices for the identical item and quantity. The low bidder for the overall contract submitted the highest price on this one line item. The tabulation proves dispersion; it does not state why each bidder allocated its price that way.

The unit-price spread is 3.21 to 1. Because the clearing line was one component of a multi-item contract, its unit price can reflect line-item allocation as well as the contractor's direct expectation for that item. The source does not provide enough evidence to assign a motive.

The defensible conclusion is narrower and stronger: the three bidders did not converge on a tight unit price for the same measured line item in the same letting. A national per-acre figure should not imply more precision than that evidence permits.

What does this evidence show, and what does it not show?

This study shows awarded public-construction bid records, normalized FDOT historical benchmarks, current publisher-stated ranges and an audit of how those figures can be reproduced. It does not show a national average of private residential land-clearing invoices, because the reviewed sources do not contain that dataset. It also does not make highway work interchangeable with rural tracts or residential lots.

What it shows:

• FDOT's normalized historical benchmark for a lump-sum Clearing & Grubbing item, with awarded amount, plan-acre denominator, contract count and report date.
• Direct acre-measured Clearing & Grubbing records from Tennessee DOT and one New York Thruway bid tabulation.
• The exact current figures published by nine national cost-guide publishers, including scope labels and unit conversions where a conversion is valid.
• A 3.21-fold bid spread on one identical 0.250-acre line item.
• A reproducibility gap: no reviewed publisher page exposed the row-level observations and calculation needed to recreate its headline per-acre range.

What it does not show:

• What a particular residential lot, farm, timber tract or development parcel will cost.
• A nationally representative private-transaction average.
• Final public-agency expenditures after change orders, quantity changes or construction completion.
• That one clearing method is cheaper than another after controlling for vegetation, access, disposal, ground conditions and finished scope.
• The cause of the Florida statewide–Market Area 06 difference or the New York bidder spread.

The page publishes a bounded answer because the evidence is bounded. A precise-looking number without its measurement basis would be less accurate than an explicitly limited one.

How was the land clearing cost dataset built?

Every record was collected on July 23, 2026 from the issuing agency's own report, an official bid tabulation, an original publisher page, an official corporate filing or an issuing regulator's page. The published dataset contains 75 records and preserves source URLs, dates, units, payment bases, conversion fields and notes. No secondary article was used to replace an original source.

Public-contract collection

For public-contract prices, we opened:

• Florida DOT's statewide historical item-average report for January 1–December 31, 2025, run April 2, 2026.
• Florida DOT's Market Area 06 moving report for June 1, 2025–May 31, 2026, run June 22, 2026.
• Florida DOT's FY2024-25 Standard Specifications and a current FDOT bid tabulation to resolve the payment basis of item 0110-1-1.
• Tennessee DOT's Average Unit Prices for awarded contracts, January 1–December 31, 2025.
• New York State Thruway Authority's bid tabulation for contract D215024.

Agency values are carried through as published. We do not blend jurisdictions, adjust for inflation, weight publisher figures, or convert lump-sum items into direct unit bids.

FDOT normalization rule

FDOT item 0110-1-1 is stored as a lump-sum item normalized by displayed plan acreage. The dataset preserves:

• The historical report's weighted average.
• Total awarded amount.
• Displayed plan-acre quantity.
• The governing lump-sum payment basis.
• A note that a contemporary bid tab labels the item AC (LS).

FDOT item 0110-2-2 is stored separately because its governing measurement is plan area in acres.

Publisher-page audit

We opened the current land-clearing cost pages from Angi, HomeAdvisor, LawnStarter, HomeGuide, Fixr, Bob Vila, Lawn Love, OWNR OPS and Homewyse. We recorded every relevant per-acre and per-square-foot endpoint visible on those pages, the page date, the scope label, whether a high endpoint was open-ended and whether the page exposed the underlying observations needed to reproduce its headline figure.

The audit does not treat a publisher's stated methodology as row-level reproducibility. A page may describe customer records, estimates, research or editorial review while still withholding the individual observations and exact calculation.

Unit conversion

All square-foot-to-acre conversions use exactly:

1 acre = 43,560 square feet
converted acre endpoint = stated square-foot endpoint × 43,560

Converted values are marked as Ocala Land Clearing Research calculations. They are never presented as numbers stated by the publisher.

Inclusion rules

• Direct acre-measured public items may appear as per-acre public bid records.
• FDOT item 0110-1-1 may appear only as a plan-acre-normalized lump-sum benchmark.
• Lump-sum items with no acre denominator are excluded from per-acre comparisons. Tennessee item 201-01 averaged $211,005.19 per lump-sum observation across 58 observations in 2025 and is retained only as contextual data.
• Publisher endpoints are included as statements about published guidance, not as observed transaction prices.
• Regulatory records are included only when read against the issuing authority.

Open-ended figures

When a publisher writes $6,000+, the dataset stores 6000.00 as the numeric threshold and sets open_ended_high to true. A range ending in + is a floor for its high side, not a ceiling.

Verification tier

★ direct source review means the record was read directly on the issuing agency, official bid tabulation, original publisher page, official corporate filing or issuing regulator's page on July 23, 2026. Version 2026.07.23 contains no provisional tier and no unverified record.

Reproduction steps

1. Divide FDOT's statewide total awarded amount of $145,147,487.73 by 3,053.896 displayed plan acres to reproduce $47,528.63 after rounding.
2. Divide the Market Area 06 total of $662,173.08 by 36.350 displayed plan acres to reproduce $18,216.59 after rounding.
3. Multiply each eligible square-foot endpoint by 43,560 to reproduce the arithmetic conversions.
4. Multiply each New York bidder's unit price by 0.250 acre to reproduce the extended amount.
5. Compare each dataset row with its source_url, retrieved_date, value_basis and notes fields.

What are you buying when you buy "land clearing"?

"Land clearing" is not one standardized private-market scope. Public specifications distinguish clearing, selective clearing, grubbing, tree removal and related work, while residential publishers also use the term for mowing, forestry mulching, cut-and-haul work and complete site preparation. A per-acre figure becomes usable only after the finished condition and exclusions are stated.

Florida Forest Service guidance defines a land clearing operation for its open-burning rules as the uprooting or clearing of vegetation in connection with construction for buildings and rights-of-way, land development or mineral operations. That regulatory definition is narrower than casual uses of the phrase for routine brush cutting or yard waste.

Two boundaries matter most.

Forestry mulching and grubbing produce different below-ground conditions. Mulching typically processes vegetation in place while leaving root systems and many stumps. Grubbing removes specified stumps, roots and buried organic material. The current evidence does not support a universal price ratio between those methods.

Clearing and full site preparation are not interchangeable. Grading, drainage, fill, compaction, erosion controls, utility work and construction-pad preparation may be separate pay items or separate private scopes. A number that includes those tasks cannot be compared directly with a number for vegetation removal alone.

Falling trees, operating heavy tracked equipment, working near utilities and burning debris are hazardous activities handled by qualified operators under the applicable authorizations. This page describes price evidence and regulatory scope; it does not provide operating instructions.

What changes land clearing cost per acre?

The reviewed specifications and publisher pages repeatedly distinguish vegetation, stem size, stump and root removal, disposal, access, ground conditions, acreage and required finish. This study does not assign a universal percentage to any factor because the verified records do not isolate those effects. The factors below explain why two acres with the same size can be different purchases.

Vegetation density and stem size. Brush, saplings and mature trees require different equipment, handling and time. FDOT's separate 2025 tree-removal item averaged $1,508.78 per tree across 278 trees, showing why individual large-tree work cannot disappear inside a generic acre label.

Stumps, roots and grubbing. Cutting visible vegetation is not the same scope as removing below-ground organic material. Whether grubbing is included changes both the work and the finished condition.

Material handling. Processing material in place, stockpiling onsite, hauling offsite and authorized burning are different cost structures. Florida land-clearing burns require authorization from the Florida Forest Service.

Parcel geometry and work limits. A long right-of-way, a compact field and a residential lot can contain the same acreage while imposing different access, edge, protection and coordination requirements. The FDOT data does not expose parcel geometry at the row level, so this study does not quantify that effect.

Access and mobilization. Equipment transport and setup are project costs that do not divide evenly across every acreage. The New York 0.250-acre bid line demonstrates large unit-price dispersion at a small quantity, but the tabulation does not identify the cause.

Wet ground, slope and surface conditions. Ground-bearing capacity, drainage and terrain can change equipment choice, timing and productivity. No verified multiplier is assigned here.

Required finished condition. Rough vegetation reduction, complete clearing and grubbing, and a graded construction-ready site are different endpoints. A price cannot be compared until the endpoint is named.

The statewide FDOT report reinforces the scope point: mowing averaged $46.36 per acre, while the normalized Clearing & Grubbing benchmark was $47,528.63 per plan acre. Those are separate pay items with different payment bases and denominators, not two prices for the same task.

Does land clearing cost per acre fall on larger projects?

No verified dataset in this study supports a universal acreage discount. Larger quantities can spread fixed project costs, while larger tracts can also contain more variation in vegetation, access, ground conditions and scope. The New York 0.250-acre line shows high unit-price dispersion at a small quantity, but it does not isolate mobilization or prove a general scale curve.

Multiplying a per-acre figure by acreage is arithmetic, not forecasting.

This table exists to expose the assumption rather than hide it. It should never be detached from its label.

What does the verified evidence show for Florida and Marion County?

FDOT Market Area 06, which covers Alachua, Marion and Volusia counties, reported a normalized Clearing & Grubbing benchmark of $18,216.59 per plan acre across 11 contracts and 36.350 plan acres for June 1, 2025 through May 31, 2026. That is 61.7% below the statewide $47,528.63 benchmark for calendar 2025. The time periods, contract sets and denominators differ, so the comparison does not isolate geography as the cause.

No Marion County private-market average is published here. The verified local public evidence is a three-county highway-market record, not a consistent sample of private residential or rural transactions. Combining it with advertising ranges or unrelated scopes would manufacture a county statistic rather than measure one.

One narrow local fact is directly verifiable: Marion County states that tree trimming and removal service providers are not required by the State of Florida or Marion County to be licensed before performing those services. The county also states that its Occupational License Ordinance was repealed by a 5–0 vote on August 1, 2006, effective October 1, 2006.

That fact does not establish that every land-clearing activity is unlicensed or unpermitted. It does not resolve building permits, development approvals, environmental authorizations, public-right-of-way requirements or licensing for related trades. It also does not support a causal claim about local prices, so no such claim is made.

For local permit screening, see the Ocala and Marion County land-clearing permit guide.

Which Florida and federal rules can change a land-clearing scope?

Regulatory requirements can add, restrict or change work even when acreage stays constant. The verified records below concern open burning, wetlands and surface waters, federal fill permitting and Marion County's narrow tree-service licensing statement. They are not a property-specific determination.

The same physical disturbance can have a different regulatory position depending on location, prior use, wetlands, surface waters, discharge of fill, intended use and the exact activity. That is why no blanket "permit required" or "no permit required" statement appears here.

This page does not publish a Marion County tree-removal fee, a City of Ocala threshold or a Florida ERP threshold. Those figures were not verified against a current issuing-office schedule or controlling text in this pass.

Why are public land-clearing price figures hard to trace?

Every publisher page in this audit displayed a date or month, and several described a broad research or data method. The missing layer was row-level reproducibility: none exposed the individual project observations and calculation that would allow a reader to rebuild its headline per-acre figure from the page itself. That distinction matters when a number is repeated outside its original scope.

Public bid records solve part of the provenance problem because they name the pay item, quantity, amount, jurisdiction and date. They introduce a different interpretation problem: highway work is not private land clearing, and FDOT's primary clearing item is lump sum even though its historical report normalizes by plan acreage.

The useful source is therefore not the one with the most confident single number. It is the one that keeps the number attached to its payment basis, scope, denominator, date and limitation.

For the site's approach to sourcing and correction, see the editorial and source standards.

What can this page not tell you?

Every figure here is bounded, and the bounds are part of the result.

• FDOT item 0110-1-1 is a lump-sum pay item. Its $47,528.63 figure is a historical report normalization by plan acreage, not a direct acre-measured unit bid.
• Public highway clearing is not private residential or rural land clearing. The specification, work limits, contracting conditions and project context differ.
• Awarded amounts are not final paid expenditures. Change orders, final quantities and closeout values are outside this dataset.
• Unit bid prices can reflect line-item allocation as well as expected direct cost. The New York tabulation shows dispersion but does not explain bidder motives.
• Small quantities can produce unstable unit prices. The 0.250-acre New York observation should not be generalized into a market average.
• The public records are not a national sample. They cover Florida, one acre-measured Tennessee item and one New York letting.
• The Florida statewide and Market Area 06 periods differ. Calendar 2025 is compared with a rolling twelve months ending May 31, 2026.
• The Market Area 06 figure rests on 11 contracts and 36.350 plan acres. The Tennessee acre-measured figure rests on 13.00 acres, all in Region 4.
• The publisher audit measures published guidance, not completed private transactions. Its outer span combines unlike scopes.
• The publisher pages do not expose row-level observations on the reviewed page sufficient to reproduce their headline ranges. This does not prove their underlying data is nonexistent; it limits independent verification from the page.
• Arithmetic conversions do not harmonize scope. Converting square feet to acres preserves units, not service boundaries.
• No value is adjusted for inflation, season, vegetation, access, disposal, terrain or finished condition.
• No probability can be assigned to a project falling inside any range on this page.
• No universal acreage discount or method-price ratio is supported.
• Regulatory information changes independently of prices. A site-specific determination belongs with the issuing authority.

Which figures were left out, and why?

Several potentially quotable claims were excluded because the controlling source or a reproducible denominator was not verified.

• Marion County and City of Ocala land-clearing or tree-removal thresholds and fees. No current number appears because the issuing code or fee schedule was not verified to publication standard in this pass.
• A single Florida Environmental Resource Permit threshold. FDEP verifies that the ERP program regulates dredging and filling in wetlands and other surface waters, but applicability is not reduced here to one unverified statewide threshold.
• A Marion County private-market average. The available verified local public record is a three-county highway-market benchmark, not a representative private transaction sample.
• A national private residential transaction average. No qualifying official or row-level private invoice dataset was found among the reviewed sources.
• Historic versions of the five pages Bob Vila names as sources. The current pages were reviewed, but their February 2023 states were not reconstructed.
• A causal explanation for the statewide–Market Area 06 difference. The records do not isolate geography, scope, contract mix or time.
• A causal explanation for the three New York bids. The tabulation records prices, not bidder reasoning.
• A universal forestry-mulching discount. No verified controlled dataset in this study isolates method from site conditions and finished scope.
• Contractor advertising ranges as transaction evidence. A stated marketing range can be useful as a published-price observation, but it is not an awarded bid, invoice or measured market average. No contractor-advertising survey is blended into the public bid benchmark.

The excluded claims remain excluded until their original source and denominator can be checked.

How should this page be cited?

Ocala Land Clearing Research is the independent research and reference section of ocalalandclearing.net.

Where can the land clearing cost dataset be downloaded?

Version 2026.07.23 contains 75 records covering public-contract summaries, bid line items, public-contract context, publisher-stated endpoints, arithmetic conversions, publisher-page audit records, corporate and source relationships, regulatory records and scope definitions.

Dataset fields

record_id, record_type, source_organization, jurisdiction_or_scope, pay_item_or_page, source_display_date, period_start, period_end, contracts_n, quantity, quantity_unit, value_usd, total_amount_usd, value_basis, range_group, open_ended_high, converted_from_unit, conversion_factor, underlying_bid_basis, report_run_date, retrieved_date, verification_tier, source_url, notes.

What else do readers ask about land clearing cost per acre?

What are the source documents?

All sources were read directly on July 23, 2026.

Public cost reports, specifications and bid records

1. Florida Department of Transportation, Historical Item Average Cost Reports. fdot.gov/fpo/fpc/reports/historicalitemaveragecost
2. Florida Department of Transportation, Item Average Unit Cost, Statewide, January 1–December 31, 2025, report run April 2, 2026. historical-item-averages-2025.pdf
3. Florida Department of Transportation, Item Average Unit Cost, Market Area 06, June 1, 2025–May 31, 2026, report run June 22, 2026. historical-item-averages-market-area-06.pdf
4. Florida Department of Transportation, Market Areas. fdot.gov/fpo/fpc/shared/marketareas
5. Florida Department of Transportation, FY2024-25 Standard Specifications for Road and Bridge Construction, Sections 110-2, 110-11 and 110-12. fy2024-25ebookfinalcomp-revised3-4-24.pdf
6. Florida Department of Transportation, Bid Tabulation, Contract E7U34, December 10, 2025 letting; item 0110-1-1 shown as AC (LS). E7U34BidTabs.pdf
7. Tennessee Department of Transportation, Average Unit Prices, January 1–December 31, 2025, Awarded Contracts. Const_aup2025.pdf
8. New York State Thruway Authority, Bid Tabulation, Contract D215024 / TAS 25-12, letting October 15, 2025. d215024-tas-25-12.pdf
9. Washington State Department of Transportation, 2026 Standard Specifications M 41-10, Division 3, Earthwork, Section 3-01 Clearing, Grubbing, and Roadside Cleanup. Division3.pdf

Regulatory and official local sources

10. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service, Burn Authorizations. fdacs.gov/Forest-Wildfire/Wildland-Fire/Burn-Authorizations
11. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Open Burning in Florida FAQ. Open-Burning-in-Florida-FAQ
12. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Open Burning. floridadep.gov/air/permitting-compliance/content/open-burning
13. Florida Department of Environmental Protection, ERP Dredging and Filling. erp-dredging-and-filling
14. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Exemptions to Permit Requirements under CWA Section 404. epa.gov/cwa-404/exemptions-permit-requirements-under-cwa-section-404
15. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Permit Program under CWA Section 404. epa.gov/cwa-404/permit-program-under-cwa-section-404
16. Marion County, Florida, Tree service information. marionfl.org/our-county/emergency-preparedness/tree-service-information

Publisher pages audited

17. Angi, How Much Does It Cost to Clear Land? [2026 Data]. angi.com/articles/how-much-does-it-cost-clear-land.htm
18. HomeAdvisor, How Much Does It Cost to Clear Land? [2025 Data]. homeadvisor.com/cost/landscape/clear-land-or-prepare-a-construction-site/
19. LawnStarter, Pricing Guide: How Much Does It Cost to Clear Land? lawnstarter.com/blog/cost/clear-land-price/
20. HomeGuide, How Much Does It Cost to Clear Land? homeguide.com/costs/land-clearing-cost
21. Fixr, Cost of Clearing Land to Build. fixr.com/costs/land-clearing-and-building-site-preparation
22. Bob Vila, How Much Does It Cost to Clear Land? bobvila.com/articles/cost-to-clear-land/
23. Lawn Love, How Much Does it Cost to Clear Land? lawnlove.com/blog/land-clearing-cost/
24. OWNR OPS, Land Clearing Cost Per Acre in 2026. ownrops.com/guides/land-clearing-cost-per-acre
25. OWNR OPS, Lot Clearing Cost Per Acre in 2026. ownrops.com/guides/lot-clearing-cost-per-acre
26. Homewyse, Cost to Clear Land. homewyse.com/services/cost_to_clear_land.html
27. Angi Inc., 2025 Form 10-K, corporate brand ownership. ir.angi.com — 2025 Form 10-K