How much does it cost to remove a flowering dogwood?
Removing a flowering dogwood around Indianapolis typically runs $100 to $700, with most jobs near $250. Flowering dogwood is a forest understory tree that got planted in full-sun subdivision lawns, and most of what looks like disease is really site failure. The classic central Indiana call is "it bloomed beautifully for eight years and now half of it is dead," and the cause is usually mower and trimmer damage at the base, compacted clay, and no afternoon shade rather than any single pathogen.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Roughly 15 to 25 feet tall and about as wide, with 25 to 40 years being realistic in an open lawn and considerably longer in the part shade it actually wants. It is the cheapest removal on this list — often a couple of hours with a chainsaw, no rigging, small stump — which is why homeowners hold a declining dogwood far too long: the removal was never the expensive part of the decision.
Condition changes the price
Storm damage is rarely why a dogwood comes down — it is short, low, and its horizontal branching sheds snow and ice reasonably well. What actually breaks are limbs already hollowed by dogwood borer or killed by anthracnose, which snap in ordinary wind because they were dead first, so a dogwood limb lost in an ice event should be treated as a symptom worth investigating rather than just debris to clean up.
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