Land-Clearing Resources

Land-Clearing Site Checklist

A printable planning tool for the facts that most often change scope and price:

• property and authorization;
• clearing limits and trees or areas to preserve;
• mulched, cleared, stump-free, or rough-graded finish;
• stump and root treatment;
• debris route;
• entrance, gates, overhead lines, soft ground, and staging;
• utilities, septic, wells, wire, debris, wet areas, and suspected wildlife burrows;
• permit, right-of-way, 811, stormwater, wildlife, and burn screens;
• proposal comparison and change-order questions.

Use it before calling or submitting a request so the first conversation begins with the property condition and intended finish—not a vague acreage number.

Ocala & Marion County Land-Clearing Permit Guide

A local permit-routing and pre-work guide that separates the independent checks most likely to matter:

• City of Ocala versus unincorporated Marion County;
• local tree and planning review;
• Florida Forest Service rules for land-clearing burning;
• FWC gopher-tortoise avoidance and permitting;
• Sunshine 811 and private utilities;
• FDEP construction stormwater;
• Environmental Resource Permitting for wetlands and other surface waters;
• residential tree-risk documentation under section 163.045, Florida Statutes;
• public right-of-way and driveway access.

The guide does not tell every reader that a permit is required. It tells the reader where the decision belongs and what facts to bring to the responsible agency.

Land Clearing Permit Requirements by State: 2026 Reference

A 51-jurisdiction permit-routing dataset covering all 50 states and the District of Columbia. It separates:

• the federal one-acre/common-plan construction-stormwater baseline;
• the NPDES issuing authority;
• directly verified state land-disturbance, erosion, forestry, or procedural overlays;
• routing rows where the official authority is identified but a definitive state threshold is intentionally not asserted;
• local, wetlands, forest-practice, protected-resource, and debris-burning checks that remain separate.

The page includes transparent verification tiers, primary-source links, limitations, methodology, and downloadable CSV and JSON files.

Land Clearing Cost Per Acre: 2026 Public Bid Data

An original price-evidence audit that compares public clearing-and-grubbing bid data with the headline ranges published by national cost guides. The study explains why a single per-acre number cannot be treated as a private Ocala quote and preserves the underlying measurement basis, calculation method, source date, limitations, and downloadable records.

Use it to understand the evidence behind published price claims—not to replace a property-specific proposal.