Land Clearing Cost in Lewiston, ID

Around Lewiston, ID the grade decides the price as often as the growth does. Land clearing near Lewiston, ID costs $1,500 to $4,500 an acre, and a small hillside or draw job begins at a minimum charge of about $1,500. Brush on a gentle terrace bench is steady work. The same brush on a steep break, in a narrow draw or tangled with tree of heaven suckers takes longer, and any stump that has to come out below grade runs into gravel. Use the ranges below for planning; your quote applies them to your own ground.

Your quote is one written price for the finish we settle on, and a return visit for sprouts sits on its own line for you to book or skip. Forestry mulching turns brush, small trees and stumps into mulch on site; stumps finish flush with the ground and nothing is hauled away. Full stump removal below grade, and cutting and hauling very large trees, are discussed and priced in the quote. Grading and build pads are not part of our price; we clear to the ground so a builder can grade. Any herbicide in the plan is a licensed applicator's work.

Request a free quote whenever it suits you. Also worth a look: the Lewiston services page, the Lewiston land clearing page, the Lewiston forestry mulching cost guide, the Lewiston tree of heaven removal guide and the Idaho land clearing cost guide.

Lewiston, ID Rates by Type of Work

Forestry Mulching

$1,500 – $4,000 / acre

Brush, saplings and small trees ground into chips where they stand. Scattered brush on a gentle terrace prices near $1,500 an acre; a thicket of tree of heaven suckers or black locust on a steep break climbs toward $4,000.

Hillside & Draw Brush Clearing

$1,500 – $2,500 / acre

Brush and young trees in a draw, along a fence line or in the band around a house, with the trees you want kept left standing. A narrow draw or fire break is measured by the share of an acre it covers.

Land Clearing

$1,500 – $4,500 / acre

An entire parcel opened to the finish agreed in your quote. A few scattered trees on open grass price low; a lot thick with trees and taken down to bare soil lands near the top. Stumps finish level with the ground, and pulling them below grade is its own line.

Lot & Homesite Prep

$1,500 – $4,500 / acre equivalent

The house site, a shop, the drive and a path opened for the power line, the well and the septic on a new parcel. We finish at ground level, and grading and the pad are for your builder.

The minimum charge is about $1,500, and it is where small jobs start. The mulcher comes on a trailer for one fire break behind a house in Lewiston, ID or a short fence row near Kendrick just as it would for a full day, so a job that size is billed at the minimum in place of an acre rate, with nothing added. Above it the acre bands apply, and a neighbor's draw cleared on the same trip makes the most of the visit.

What Moves a Lewiston, ID Quote

How steep the ground is

The terrace breaks north of Lewiston run 20 to 65 percent. A tracked mulcher on a grade moves slower and picks its line, so the same brush costs more on a break than on a level bench. Our crew works where the footing is safe, often from the top; any slope too steep for the machine is left out of the quote or handled another way, and you hear that before the job starts.

Tree of heaven and black locust

Both turn up in Nez Perce County. Tree of heaven needs more than a clearing pass: cutting it alone brings up root sprouts, so the plan pairs a licensed applicator's treatment with our mulching and a return visit, each its own line on the quote. The applicator prices the treatment.

Gravel under the topsoil

Those terrace soils carry gravelly alluvium 25 to 40 inches down. Mulching stays at the surface and leaves stumps flush, so it never gets near that layer. A stump that has to come out below grade for a foundation or a drive goes through it, which is why that work is discussed and priced in the quote.

Where the brush ends up

Inside Lewiston city limits, open burning is prohibited, and outside cities a permit is needed to burn slash from 10 May to 20 October. Mulching leaves nothing to burn and nothing to haul, so neither rule changes the price of a mulched job. Cutting and hauling very large trees is priced in the quote when you want them gone.

Getting the machine in

The mulcher travels on a trailer, so one of our first questions on the call is how the truck reaches the work: how wide the gate is, whether the lane will hold, and whether a steep drive or a planted field is in the way. Work split into patches across a big parcel means more moving between them, and that time shows in the quote.

Lewiston Pricing Questions

Most work runs $1,500 to $4,500 an acre. Open brush on a gentle terrace usually prices near the bottom and a steep, overgrown break near the top, but one acre can land anywhere in its band depending on the stems, the slope and the access. The $1,500 minimum is the starting point for small jobs, not the price of a typical acre.
Usually it sits higher in its band, because the machine works slower and more carefully on a grade. Ground too steep to work safely is left out of the quote or handled another way. The Lewiston forestry mulching cost guide works through a hillside fire clearing around a house.
Per acre, a stand along a fence line or below a house usually falls in the $1,500 to $2,500 hillside and draw band, and a dense grove of larger stems prices as forestry mulching. The added cost is the follow-up: a licensed applicator's treatment, priced by the applicator, and a return visit for suckers. Our Lewiston tree of heaven removal guide sets out the order.
The same four bands apply across Nez Perce, Latah and Lewis counties. Where a job lands in its band depends on the drive out, the access and the growth, the same as in town. Our Lewiston land clearing page sums up the towns, soils and local rules.

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