How much does it cost to remove an eastern red cedar?
Removing an eastern red cedar around Indianapolis typically runs $250 to $1,400, with most jobs near $550. It is native here and it plants itself — birds drop seed in fencerows, along drives, and in any corner that stopped getting mowed, so most red cedar quotes start with "this thing appeared and now it's 25 feet tall against the garage." The second driver is cedar-apple rust: red cedar is the alternate host, so anyone with apples or crabapples eventually wants the cedar gone.
Mature size, and the bracket it puts you in
Typically 30-45 ft tall by 8-20 ft wide in the open here, and it can live well past 100 years; fencerow trees stay narrow while yard specimens broaden with age. Removals land at the low end of the cost bracket because they rarely overhang a roof by much — the cost driver is access and a surprisingly dense, heavy crown for the height, not size.
Condition changes the price
One of the better conifers under Indiana ice — tough flexible wood on a narrow dense crown over a deep root system, so it bends and sheds load instead of snapping at the trunk. The exception is multi-stemmed specimens that forked low: ice splays the stems outward, the union tears, and once splayed the tree never closes back up.
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