How much does it cost to remove a black maple?
Removing a black maple around Indianapolis typically runs $400 to $1,900, with most jobs near $720. Effectively a sugar maple variant — often classified as Acer saccharum ssp. nigrum — told apart by darker, droopier, mostly three-lobed leaves and small leafy stipules at the base of the leaf stem. It matters practically because it handles heavy, moist clay better than true sugar maple, yet it is routinely sold, mapped and invoiced as sugar maple, so what a homeowner believes they own often is not what is in the yard.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Matures at 60–80 ft with a 50–60 ft rounded crown and lives roughly 150–200 years in decent soil. Full-size specimens carry dense heavy wood across a wide spread, putting them in a high removal bracket, and the tight crown means considerably more rigging than the height alone would suggest.
Condition changes the price
Considerably stronger-wooded than silver or red maple and it generally carries ice well. Failures concentrate at tight V-shaped codominant unions with included bark — look for a seam or a bark ridge being pushed outward at a fork, because that is the union that comes apart under load.
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