How much does it cost to remove a concolor fir (white fir)?
Removing a concolor fir (white fir) around Indianapolis typically runs $250 to $1,400, with most jobs near $550. This is the conifer extension services now recommend in place of Colorado blue spruce, so it is what people are planting — and Morton is explicit that you must not plant white fir in heavy clay soil. Central Indiana is heavy clay, so the species that solves the blue spruce disease problem walks straight into a drainage problem, and most calls come on a fir sitting in a clay lawn or a bermed bed that holds water.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
30-50 ft tall by only 15-20 ft wide with slow growth (Morton) — much narrower than a blue spruce, which is why it fits lots a spruce would outgrow. Morton reports no serious pest or disease problems, so a well-drained site produces a long-term tree; removal is a mid-bracket conifer job, and the narrow spread often means it can be felled in one piece where there is room.
Condition changes the price
The dense evergreen crown holds ice, but fir branches are flexible and the single strong leader sheds load reasonably well, so individual branch failure is not the usual outcome. The Indiana failure mode is whole-tree — a heavy evergreen crown over a shallow root plate in saturated clay goes over at the roots in a wind event — and any fir carrying a double leader from an old leader injury will split at that union under ice load.
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