Land clearing & earthwork in Brevard County
We’re based in Titusville, so Brevard is home ground. From the Mims line down through Melbourne, and from the St. Johns marshes east to the lagoon. Mulching from $1,200 an acre, clearing from $1,500, and a number back the same day in almost every case.
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Three kinds of dirt in one county
Brevard is narrow east to west and changes completely across it. Which band your parcel sits in decides the machine, the season and the price far more than the acreage does.
The Atlantic Coastal Ridge runs north to south through the middle of the county, inland of the Indian River Lagoon. This is the high, dry band. Roughly 25 to 35 feet of elevation through Titusville. The soil under it is well drained sand sitting over coquina rock somewhere between twenty and forty inches down. Scrub oak, sand pine and palmetto grow on it. It’s the best ground in the county to work: firm year round, and a machine can be on it the day after a storm.
Flatwoods take up most of the rest. The soil is the poorly drained sand that covers a great deal of Florida. Grey on top, organic-stained below, slash pine and saw palmetto growing out of it. The water table sits within ten inches of the surface for several months of most years and drops well below three feet in the dry season. That single fact is why we push flatwoods jobs toward winter where the schedule allows.
The St. Johns River floodplain forms the western edge. Marsh, marsh lake and wet prairie. Parcels backing onto it are the ones where the answer is sometimes "not in August." We’d rather tell you that than tear up your property proving it.
Two parcels a mile apart in Brevard can be a one-day job and a wait-until-January job. If you send photos, take a couple after a hard rain. Where the water sits tells us more than anything else you can show us.
Where we work in Brevard
- Titusville, Mims and Port St. John
- Cocoa, Rockledge and Merritt Island
- Cocoa Beach and the barrier island
- Melbourne, Palm Bay and Malabar
- Viera, Suntree and the I-95 corridor
Best months here
- November–April: firm ground, anything goes
- February–May: book early, the calendar fills
- June–October: ridge yes, low flatwoods with judgment
Brevard pages
Each one covers what the ground actually does there, not the same paragraph with the name swapped.
Titusville
Ridge scrub on one side of town, flatwoods and river marsh on the other. The widest range of ground conditions of anywhere we work, and the shortest drive.
Cocoa Beach
Deep dry sand, small platted lots and tight access. Almost no acreage clearing here. The work is drives, pads and small excavation.
Melbourne
Thousands of quarter-acre lots platted in the sixties and never built on, plus canal-drained ground west of I-95 that behaves nothing like the coast.
Work like yours
Three kinds of ground in one county, and the work changes with it.
Everything we do in Brevard
Same nine services countywide. The two with published per-acre rates are the two we do most.
Ground work
Access & structure
Brevard questions
Do you charge travel within Brevard?
No. We’re based in Titusville and the whole county is a normal working radius, from the Volusia line down to Malabar. Travel only becomes part of a number when a job is small and a long way out, and if that applies we say so when we quote rather than folding it in quietly.
How soon can you get to a Brevard property?
Usually within a week or two, and sometimes faster in a quiet stretch. February through May is the busy window here because everyone wants work finished before the rains, so if you know you want something done in spring, ask in January.
Is the ground different enough to matter across the county?
Very much so. Ridge sand through the middle of the county is firm year round. Flatwoods either side of it carry a water table within ten inches of the surface for months at a time. The St. Johns floodplain on the west edge is wetter again. Same acreage, same growth, different jobs.
Do you take on more than one property at a time?
Yes, and it’s where the real saving is. Getting truck, trailer and machines to a county and back costs the same whether we do one job or four, so several parcels in the same area, or several jobs on one parcel, split that cost between them. Investors and builders with a run of lots should say so when they ask.
Do you work on the barrier island?
Yes, though it’s a different kind of job. Small lots, tight access and mostly drives, pads and small excavation rather than clearing. See the Cocoa Beach page for what that actually looks like.