Land Clearing
We clear house lots and acreage start to finish, with trees and stumps out roots and all. The ground is left level, with the debris hauled off or mulched in place.
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Palm Bay still has wooded lots on many of its streets, grown up in pines and saw palmetto. In the Compound in southwest Palm Bay, nearly 5,000 parcels remain largely undeveloped, most of them quarter-acre home lots. Land clearing in Palm Bay starts with lots like these, on wet sand and under city tree rules. Each one needs a plan before a house can go up.
BW Clearing is based in Melbourne, just north of Palm Bay, and Palm Bay is part of our service area. Our skid steer runs a disc mulcher for brush and a tree puller that lifts trees out by the roots. The lot is left ready for the next step, whether that is a house or a shop. See how our land clearing service works, or call or text (904) 719-0443 for a free quote.
Tell us about the lot or acreage, the work you need and where it is. We look at the job and put a free quote in writing.
Palm Bay grew from a small town into the most populous city in Brevard County. It counted 2,808 residents when it incorporated in 1960 and 119,760 at the 2020 Census. The Census Bureau estimated 148,092 residents in 2025. The city authorized 1,908 new single-family homes that same year, by Census permit data.
By Census estimates, the median home here was built in 1993, and nearly one in three dates from the 1980s. Large parts of the city were platted as Port Malabar, in numbered subdivision units. Vacant lots still sit between finished homes, so clearing often happens right beside a lived-in yard. That calls for careful tree work near fences and a clean edge along the property line.
The federal soil survey for Brevard County maps EauGallie, Pineda, Myakka and Wabasso sands across much of Palm Bay. It rates all four poorly drained. EauGallie, the most common, holds a water table 6 to 18 inches down for months in the wet season. Pockets of sand pine scrub run through parts of the city too, and the Florida scrub-jay lives in that habitat.
Palm Bay's tree code requires a city permit to clear any residential lot under one acre. The same permit covers most trees six inches or more across at chest height. If you are clearing to build, the code wants the building permit already under review. On home sites over one acre, a site work permit goes to the city's Land Development Division first.
Palm Bay also holds a federal permit that covers the Florida scrub-jay. Inside the mapped scrub-jay areas, the city's habitat plan bars clearing from March 1 through June 30, with narrow exceptions. Gopher tortoises are protected too. State wildlife rules call for an FWC relocation permit before work within 25 feet of a burrow.
Our site preparation and planning starts with these questions. We walk you through which permits apply to your lot and what the city asks for. The city offices give the final answer, and we point you to the right one.
Rain on a Palm Bay lot runs to a shallow swale at the edge of the road. From there, the swales carry it to outfalls around the city. The city's Public Works department maintains over 130 miles of canals and clears lot line ditches. A cleared lot should still shed water toward the swale, so the grading matters as much as the clearing.
Parts of Palm Bay also sit inside the Melbourne-Tillman Water Control District, which counts 163 miles of canals. The district bars motorized vehicles from its canal rights-of-way. If your lot backs onto one of its canals, access along the canal takes a district permit first. FEMA flood zones cover parts of the city too, and the city says the entire Compound sits in one.
Palm Bay's right-of-way usually covers the road plus 10 to 15 feet behind the curb or pavement edge. The roadside swale runs through that strip, and nearly all work there takes a Public Works permit. A drive across the swale may need a culvert pipe under it. A new dirt or gravel driveway into a wooded lot starts with that permit question.
More than four in five Palm Bay homes are detached single-family houses, by Census estimates. For a new house, the city asks for trees and shrubs on the lot, and existing ones can count. Undisturbed native growth such as saw palmetto can count toward that planting too. Any part of the lot cleared down to dirt has to be planted again.
So the plan comes first. We settle what stays and what goes, then clear the house pad and the driveway the build needs. Forestry mulching grinds brush and small trees where they stand into a mulch layer. Palm Bay's own code lists mulching in place as one way to clear underbrush.
Bigger trees and stumps come out roots and all as part of our lot clearing work. Storms add work here too: in 2004, three hurricanes left the city with damage and debris cleanup. The city's code compliance rules ask owners to keep property clear of debris and dead or fallen trees. Debris removal hauls off downed trees and limbs, or we mulch them where they can stay.
Communities and areas we serve around Palm Bay: Port Malabar, the Compound, Bayside Lakes, Sandy Pines, Palm Bay Colony, Turkey Creek, Malabar Road, Babcock Street, Minton Road, Emerson Drive, St. Johns Heritage Parkway, Degroodt Road.
Palm Bay ZIP codes served: 32905, 32907, 32908, 32909.
Palm Bay is part of our service area. We look at the land first, then put a free quote in writing.
(904) 719-0443 We clear house lots and acreage start to finish, with trees and stumps out roots and all. The ground is left level, with the debris hauled off or mulched in place.
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The disc mulcher on our skid steer grinds palmetto and small trees into mulch where they stand. The wood stays on the lot, and the ground stays covered.
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We cut overgrown lots and pasture down with a hydraulic three-blade brush mower on our skid steer. It cuts dense brush and small trees up to about 5 inches.
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New dirt and gravel driveways and access roads for rural lots and job sites. We grade the base, then lay and press the material the way you ask.
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We level lots and dig ponds, and the dirt goes where your plan needs it. All of our excavating stays above ground.
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We cut down the high spots and spread that dirt into the low ones. Lots, pads and pasture end up level and graded so rain runs off.
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We dig earth ponds on lots and acreage with a rented excavator. The dirt can raise a house pad or fill low ground on the same lot.
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We haul off the trees, limbs, root balls and rock that land clearing leaves behind. Storm debris after a hurricane is part of the work too.
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We clear Brazilian pepper thickets and other invasive trees from lot edges and fence lines. The tree puller lifts the trunks out roots and all, so far less is left to resprout.
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We plan the clearing with you before any machine runs. Then we get your raw lot ready for a new house or barn.
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Pole barn shops, garages, barns and barndominium shells, with insulated options and fencing. We clear the land and level the pad before the first post goes in.
Learn MoreA few of the questions we hear most around Palm Bay. If yours is not here, call or text and ask.
Send us the location and what you want cleared, and we will reach out to set a time. You can also call or text (904) 719-0443.
Tell us about the lot or acreage, the work you need and where it is. We look at the job and put a free quote in writing.