How much does it cost to remove a shingle oak?
Removing a shingle oak around Indianapolis typically runs $400 to $1,900, with most jobs near $720. Despite smooth, unlobed, laurel-like leaves that look nothing like an oak, this is a red-oak-group species — the single most important fact about the tree. Red group means full oak wilt susceptibility and death within a single season, and homeowners (and occasionally crews) misread it as a non-oak and cut it in June.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Roughly 50–60 ft in the open with a broad rounded crown, taller and narrower when forest-grown, and it comfortably exceeds 100 years. Mid-to-upper removal bracket — smaller than a mature bur or white oak, but the wood is dense and heavy for its size.
Condition changes the price
The wood itself is strong and it is not prone to shattering. Its specific Indiana failure mode is ice loading on the marcescent leaves: a crown still full of dead foliage catches far more ice than a bare oak, and shingle oaks lose whole scaffold limbs in glaze events that leave neighboring bare-crowned oaks untouched.
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