How much does it cost to remove an ash (green and white ash)?
Removing an ash (green and white ash) around Indianapolis typically runs $400 to $1,900, with most jobs near $720. Emerald ash borer has been confirmed in all 92 Indiana counties since 2017, so the question on a central Indiana ash is almost never whether to save it — the untreated ones are already dead or dying and only trees on an active systemic treatment program are still viable. What a quote on an ash really prices is access: whether it comes down as a climbable tree or a bucket-and-crane job.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Green and white ash mature at roughly 50-80 ft tall with 40-60 ft spreads, and healthy trees lived well past a century before EAB arrived. Removal brackets high for the size because dead ash usually cannot be climbed — many companies refuse to climb one dead more than about six months — so bucket or crane access, not trunk diameter, sets the price.
Condition changes the price
A living ash is respectable wood; a dead one is a different tree entirely. Once EAB kills it, ash goes brittle fast and sheds limbs in light wind or on a still day, which is why it fails differently from everything else on this list — it does not bend and split under ice, it snaps and drops with no load event at all.
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