How much does it cost to remove a flowering crabapple?
Removing a flowering crabapple around Indianapolis typically runs $100 to $700, with most jobs near $250. Crabapple is the most-planted small tree in central Indiana subdivisions and it generates more "is my tree dying?" calls than anything else its size — because scab-susceptible cultivars go yellow and defoliate in July and August every single year while remaining perfectly alive. Most of these calls end in a spray program or a replacement conversation, not a removal.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Mature at roughly 15 to 25 feet tall and often just as wide, with a 30 to 70 year lifespan and peak flowering and form in the first 25 to 40 years. Removal is a small-tree bracket by height, but tight setbacks, dense low branching and a crown that overhangs the drive and the neighbor's fence make them slower on site than the numbers suggest.
Condition changes the price
Low, dense and wide-crowned, crabapple takes glaze better than most as a whole tree and almost never threatens a roof. The failure mode on old specimens is the wide, near-horizontal scaffold limb splitting off the trunk under heavy ice, and once that tears out it leaves a large ragged wound that decays fast in a tree with no heartwood durability to spare.
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