PIERCE
LAND
CLEARING
Pierce Land Clearing provides land clearing, forestry mulching, and underbrush removal services across Houston, TX and the surrounding metro. Our crews grind pine, yaupon, and tallow into clean mulch and handle wet clay with machines built for it. One local crew, transparent day rate pricing, and a real number for your project before the first tree comes down.
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Land clearing in Houston, Texas is a fight against growth that never takes a season off. Pine, yaupon, privet, and Chinese tallow can take an untended tract back in five years, and the clay under it all punishes the wrong equipment. Our tracked forestry mulchers are matched to exactly this: low ground pressure for the wet months, high horsepower for the solid growth, and a grind-in-place finish that needs no burning and generally no haul off.
Across Houston, Katy, Cypress, Tomball, and Waller we handle development tract clearing, pipeline and utility right of way, pad sites and detention areas, acreage and ranchette clearing, invasive removal including tallow and yaupon, and fence line work on the metro’s edges. Commercial insurance is in place and schedules get kept.
Pricing is straightforward. Skid steer mulchers run $3,000 per day with transport included. High horsepower dedicated mulchers run $4,000 per day plus transport. Photos, an aerial, or a site plan gets most Houston quotes done the same day, from an infill lot to a full tract. Call 512-400-2693 and a project manager will answer, seven days a week.
A full service land clearing company serving Houston, Katy, Cypress, Tomball, Waller, and the greater metro area.
Brush and small trees ground into soil-protecting mulch in one pass. No burning, no hauling.
Cut the fire load, free the water table, and open sightlines on cedar-choked ground.
Reclaim overgrown lots, pastures, and fence lines from mesquite and scrub.
Selective take-downs and stump grinding for clean, open ground.
Grubbing, grading, and pad prep that hands your builder permit-ready dirt.
Concrete and rock crushed and milled on site into base material for drives, pads, and staging areas.
Clean corridors for new fencing, utilities, and access roads.
Residential and commercial lots cleared, leveled, and ready.
Stock tanks and ponds dug, shaped, and finished right.
From half acre homesites to utility scale projects, the equipment and crew scale to the job.
Utility corridors, pasture reclamation, invasive cedar and mesquite removal, and prep for whatever you are planning next.
Lot clearing, grubbing, and pad prep that keeps your build schedule on track.
Mesquite and cedar removal, pasture and grazing recovery, fence lines, senderos, stock tanks, and ranch roads.
Multi lot and large acreage clearing with ground left ready for survey, permitting, and infrastructure.
Utility scale site clearing, vegetation removal, and access roads for solar projects across Central Texas.
Transmission lines, pipelines, and fence and utility row corridors cleared to spec and on schedule.
Parks, drainage easements, fire mitigation, and public land maintenance. Easy to work with on bids and compliance.
Senderos, plot clearing, feeder and blind access, and trail systems that make your property huntable again.
A lot of land clearing companies rent whatever the equipment yard has that week. We own purpose-built forestry machines and match them to your terrain. Not sure which machine your property needs? Try our cost calculator for an instant answer.
Our high horsepower dedicated mulchers run 300+ HP and chew through heavy cedar and mesquite at a pace no skid steer can match. That is how big tracts get cleared in days instead of weeks. We bring these machines when your material runs bigger than 8 inches in diameter and the property has access for an 11 foot wide machine.
For material up to 8 inches in diameter, our skid steer mulchers fill the gap. Subdivision lots, tree preservation, tight fence lines, and finish work around structures, they get in where the big machines cannot. Low ground pressure protects your topsoil, and they clear selectively around the oaks you want to keep.
The photos on this page come from our documented mulching work in the pine and post oak country between Houston and the Brazos Valley, the same growth that covers metro acreage, and the project carousel below leads with our 38 acre commercial clearing in Brownsville, a coastal site cleared for development in six days. That is the pace and the finish we bring to Houston metro tracts.
Most recent Houston area project: May 2026
Send photos and property details for a fast quote, or meet us on-site and we will walk it with you. Either way you get a firm number, free.
Our crew and machines do the work, selectively and cleanly. The mulch stays right where it falls, protecting the soil and feeding the grass. No burn piles, and no haul off needed.
You get open ground, clean sightlines, and land you can actually use again. If your project calls for full site prep, we handle that too.
Every site is different, so price comes down to a few things: acreage, how solid the growth is, ground conditions, what stays, and access. Commercial projects get a firm written scope against the site plan, so the number you get is the number you pay.
Most companies make you chase a number. Here is ours. The machine we bring depends on the size of your material and the access on your property.
Plus transport to your site
Transport included
Day rates help you budget. When you send photos or have us walk the property, you get a firm total for the whole job, free either way. For a deeper breakdown, read our guide on what it costs to clear land in Texas.
Just had a fence line for a 50 acre tract cleared. Some ravines, trees, trash trees. It is amazing! Will with his magic machine cleared that path and much more. Stumps, dead trees, things that the pioneers could have only dreamed of.
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Amazing service and final product. Hunter, Jonathan and Dustin were the operators for both the tree mulcher and the rock mulcher. Their work completely transformed my property. My only regret is that I did not have it done sooner.
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Outstanding company. Cleared out around 9 acres of mesquites and prickly pears and some broken down oak trees. The operators are very good at what they do and very courteous. I have some more projects coming up and for sure I know who to call.
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Houston famously has no zoning, but clearing still touches rules: the city tree ordinance protects street and parking lot trees on commercial projects, floodplain and detention requirements follow Harris County Flood Control on much of the metro’s ground, and the surrounding cities and MUDs each carry their own development standards. Residential and ag land outside those triggers clears without permits. We flag exactly what applies when we quote your project.
Estimates usually happen within a few days of your call. Most residential jobs run one to three days on site, and larger acreage moves at several acres a day with the dedicated mulchers. One local quirk: sand over clay in the bottoms stays soft long after the ridges have dried, so we work the high ground first when the weather turns. You get a start window with your quote and a heads up before we roll in.
Houston does not stop building, and the ground has to be ready first. We run commercial land clearing services for developers, civil contractors, and energy work across the metro: tract clearing ahead of dirt crews, pad and corridor clearing, and vegetation management on schedules that penalize slippage.
Multi acre tracts cleared and mulched ahead of grading, with the debris question answered on site instead of hauled through Houston traffic. Our biggest documented commercial job cleared 38 acres for a commercial site, published with acreage, machines, and timeline like every project we document.
Right of way corridors, laydown yards, and access routes cleared to spec, with compaction friendly mulching that keeps inspectors and engineers comfortable. One crew handles clearing through excavation and dirt work in Houston, so there is no gap between contractors.
The same published logic as everything we do: machines and days. Skid steer mulchers at $3,000 a day with transport included, high horsepower dedicated mulchers at $4,000 a day plus transport, quoted in machine days you can check against our own website. Bid packages get real numbers, not allowances.
Houston clearing is its own animal: pine and yaupon thicket on the sandy ground north and west, hackberry and vine walls in the bottomlands, and lots inside the metro that disappear under growth in two wet seasons. We clear it the way the coastal climate demands, mulched in place, no burn piles, no debris convoys.
Tomball, Magnolia, Waller, Cypress, New Caney, Kingwood: sandy pine country where yaupon fills every gap the canopy leaves. Our machines grind the understory out from under the pines without stripping the soil, the same work in the same growth as our Montgomery and Conroe pages document, and the same country covered by our East Texas land clearing operation.
Infill lots, teardown sites, and overgrown parcels cleared for builders and owners. A typical Houston lot runs a single machine day at the published skid steer rate, and the mulch layer keeps the lot clean and mud free until construction starts.
When water moves through, it leaves tangled timber that normal crews cannot touch. We mulch storm and flood debris in place, documented on a real job: 3 acres of flood debris mulched in Georgetown, the same machines and method we bring to Harris County ground.
Comparing land clearing companies near you? Our test is simple: published day rates, documented projects with real costs, and operators who name the machine they will send. See every documented project and check our numbers against anyone.
Skid steer mulchers run $3,000 per day with transport included, for material up to 8 inches in diameter. High horsepower dedicated mulchers run $4,000 per day plus transport, for solid growth and larger tracts. Metro infill lots usually run a day, and acreage on the edges scales from there. Send photos or a site plan and you will usually have a real number the same day.
Both. Inside the metro we clear infill lots, easements, and development tracts. Outside the loop is where most of the acreage work lives: Waller, Montgomery, and Fort Bend county ground where the pine, yaupon, and tallow have taken over old pasture. The photos on this page include our pasture reclamation work northwest of town.
The Houston area’s two worst invaders, and mulching handles both. Tallow grinds clean and the mulch layer slows the reseed, yaupon grinds into the same mat, and the ground goes back to grass or gets held clean for development. Regrowth management with follow up passes or spraying keeps both beaten.
With mulching, nothing needs to leave the site. Everything grinds into a mulch layer that controls erosion and keeps dust down, and there is no burning, which matters inside the metro where burning is off the table. Haul off is generally not needed.
Gulf coast clay stays wet half the year, and our tracked machines are the right tool for it: wide tracks, low ground pressure, and no rutted-out mess. Genuinely saturated ground we schedule around, and we are straight with you about timing.
Yes. Tract clearing ahead of dirt work, pipeline and utility right of way, pad sites, and detention areas are regular work, with commercial insurance in place and schedules kept. Our 38 acre commercial clear in Brownsville, linked below, ran exactly that playbook.
We run the Houston corridor regularly through Conroe, Magnolia, and Montgomery. Most jobs get on the calendar within a couple of weeks, and commercial timelines get scheduled to the day.
Yes. Photos, an aerial screenshot, or a site plan will get most Houston quotes done the same day. For larger tracts, mark the boundaries on the aerial and we will price the clearing phase directly against it.
Every job we publish carries the acreage, the machines, the days on site and what it actually cost. 41 projects documented across Texas so far.
See all our documented projectsAcross the metro we cover Katy, Cypress, Tomball, Waller, Hempstead, and Richmond. Close by we also serve Conroe, Magnolia, Montgomery, Brenham, and Columbus. Somewhere else on the coast? Browse every area we serve or just call.
Quick quotes, competent operators, and top of the line equipment. Dedicated project managers who actually answer the phone, and a family business that actually cares about making customers happy.