Is a red maple common in central Indiana?
Native across most of Indiana and now one of the most heavily planted landscape trees in the central part of the state, making up a meaningful share of the canopy in newer subdivisions. Urban foresters are openly warning about overplanting it, and because so many went in as ash replacements at once, the chlorosis and storm-damage call volume on this one species climbs every year.
Why that matters for tree work
This was the default ash replacement, so central Indiana now has an enormous cohort of red maples and Freeman hybrids all planted between roughly 2005 and 2015 and all aging into their problems at the same time. The thing that blindsides homeowners is chlorosis — red maple wants acidic soil and much of this region's clay runs alkaline, so the yellow-leaf-green-vein call is a soil pH problem, not a disease.
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