A haboob rolls through at eight, and by nine there's a mesquite across the driveway, half the back fence in the pool and fronds on every square foot of gravel. We clear it at a flat photo-quoted price — yard and green debris $119 a cubic yard, structural debris $162, a whole-yard clear as truck-fill from $325. Early-morning crews through monsoon season, clean green waste separated. No Arizona sales tax on the service.
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Upload a Photo & Get Quote →Two or three wide shots — the downed tree, the fence line, the pile you've already dragged. You get an exact flat number back in seconds instead of waiting on a walkthrough while the queue fills.
Same or next day across most of the Valley. In July and August we run the first windows of the morning, because 110°-plus afternoons are not when anyone should be dragging wet limbs across a yard.
An insured crew bucks what's down, loads from the yard, the pool deck, the side gate — not just the curb — and keeps clean green material out of the trash load.
Storm loads price by volume, not by the hour, because that's the honest way to charge for something whose size you can see in a photo. The one thing that changes the rate is what the debris is: clean green waste disposes cheaper than mixed structural material, and we pass that split through rather than averaging it into one number.
| Load | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Yard & green debris (limbs, fronds, uprooted plants) | $119 / cubic yard |
| Structural debris (fence, patio cover, roof material) | $162 / cubic yard |
| Loose pile — small | $110 |
| Loose pile — medium | $174 |
| Loose pile — large | $280 |
| Truck-fill — 1/4 truck | $325 |
| Truck-fill — 1/2 truck | $580 |
| Truck-fill — 3/4 truck | $790 |
| Truck-fill — full truck | $985 |
| Item | Flat price |
|---|---|
| Patio table | $120 |
| Patio chair | $40 |
| Patio umbrella / shade sail | $71 |
| Outdoor lounge / daybed | $82 |
| Trampoline | $156 |
| Swing set / play structure | $192 |
| Propane grill | $95 |
| Carpet (rolled, water-damaged) | $92 |
| Metal shelving (from a flooded garage) | $95 |
$75 minimum on any job. Most storm calls are mixed — a tree, a run of fence and the patio set that ended up in the pool — so photograph it all together and we price the whole clear as one number rather than three. Loading and disposal are included. No Arizona sales tax on the service.
For context, independent cost surveys put a typical Phoenix-metro junk-removal job at roughly $226–$237. A storm clear can land under that for a single pile or well over it for a half-acre lot with a downed tree — which is exactly why we quote from your photo instead of quoting the average.
| Option | Cost | Speed | The catch |
|---|---|---|---|
| City bulk appointment (Phoenix) | Free | Up to 3 business days | Capped at 4 collections a calendar year, items out no more than 7 days ahead, and you drag every limb to the street yourself — one storm burns a quarter of your annual allowance |
| Haul it yourself | $55/ton trash · $32–$37/ton clean green organics (2026 City of Phoenix rates) | A weekend | Your truck, your loading, several trips — and the SR-85 Landfill isn't open to the public, so a transfer station is the only route |
| Your landscaper | Varies | Their next visit | Plenty of Valley landscapers will cut it but won't haul it — you end up with a neater pile in the same place |
| Insurer's contractor | Claim-dependent | Adjuster's timeline | Usually addresses structural damage, not the yard debris; and the claim moves at claim speed, not at monsoon speed |
| JunkRabbit | $119/cu yd green · $162 structural · truck-fill $325–$985 | Same or next day | None — flat photo price, we load it from the yard, green waste separated |
It has a program, and after a monsoon storm it is the wrong tool — not because the city is doing anything unreasonable, but because the program was designed for planned decluttering and a haboob is not planned.
Phoenix's bulk service (the city's own term is "uncontained trash") is appointment-based. The rules are published by Phoenix Public Works and they are specific: a maximum of four collections per calendar year, scheduled up to three business days out, with material set out no more than seven days ahead of the appointment. Read that as a storm victim and three problems appear at once. First, three business days is an eternity when a mesquite is across the driveway and the fence between you and the neighbor's pool is on the ground. Second, everything has to be carried to the street by you — which for an uprooted tree means you also need a saw, a truck bed's worth of trips across the yard, and a morning you don't have. Third, and least obvious: you only get four of these a year. Spending one on weather you didn't choose means it isn't there in November when you actually want to clean out the garage.
There's a materials wrinkle too. Green organics and uncontained trash are handled differently in the Valley's disposal system, and a pile that mixes palm fronds with broken fence board and roof tile is not the tidy, single-category set-out the program is built around. And Phoenix's rules are Phoenix's alone — Mesa, Chandler, Gilbert, Glendale, Peoria, Tempe and Scottsdale each run their own bulk schedules with their own caps and windows, so if you're outside city limits, check your own city's site rather than assuming the Phoenix rule applies. What doesn't vary anywhere in the metro is the shape of the problem: municipal collection runs on a calendar, and storms don't.
The single most useful thing we do on a storm job happens before the truck leaves: we keep clean green waste out of the trash load. That isn't a talking point, it's arithmetic you can check. The City of Phoenix 2026 rate schedule tips clean green organics at roughly $32–$37 per ton at its transfer stations, against $55 per ton for trash. The moment a crew tosses your palm fronds on top of broken fence board, the entire load becomes trash and pays the trash rate — which is why so many haulers quote one flat "debris" number and mix everything. Our yard-debris rate is lower than our structural rate for exactly this reason, and the sort is how it stays lower.
The rest follows the same logic. Metal is pulled for scrap — steel fence panels, carport framing, gutter, patio furniture frames. Clean wood from a fence or patio cover is separated where it can be. Anything genuinely usable that the storm didn't ruin — a patio set with a bent leg, a grill with a torn cover — gets offered to donation rather than tipped, with Goodwill of Central & Northern Arizona and St. Vincent de Paul as the usual routes. And every load is tarped, which on a windy monsoon afternoon is not optional.
Storm volume in the Valley isn't spread evenly. South Phoenix, Laveen, Arcadia and the big-lot West Valley generate the most of it, and for a simple reason: bigger lots hold bigger trees, longer fence runs and more mature landscaping to lose. A quarter-acre South Phoenix or Laveen property can produce more green waste from one cell than a whole street of small-lot infill homes, and an Arcadia flood-lot with mature citrus and eighty-year-old shade trees produces the heaviest material of all. Those jobs need a crew sized for the lot, not for the address.
Access is the other half. Most Valley backyards reach the street through a single three-foot side gate, which means the tree that fell by the pool gets carried out one armload at a time past the AC condenser. On a flood-irrigated lot the ground stays soft for days, so we stage on paving rather than turf and carry the distance instead of driving it. Where a wall or gate is already storm-damaged we work around it rather than through it, and we walk the route before anything moves.
Then there's the season itself. Monsoon runs July into mid-September, which is also the hottest stretch of the Phoenix year — routinely past 110°F by mid-afternoon. We book the first windows of the morning during those months, for the crew's safety and because a yard clear that takes two hours at 7 a.m. takes three and a half at 2 p.m. If you want the earliest slot after a big cell moves through, send photos as soon as it's light.
"Microburst put forty feet of fence and half a mesquite in the yard. Sent photos at 6 a.m., crew was here by nine, gone before it hit 110. Flat price, no tax line."
"The tree guys cut it and left it. These guys actually hauled it — and they kept the green waste separate from the broken patio cover instead of dumping it all together."
"Whole back of the property came down in the haboob. They carried everything out through a three-foot side gate without touching the lawn. Two trucks, one flat quote."
How much does storm debris cleanup cost in Phoenix?
Green and yard debris $119 a cubic yard, structural debris (fence, patio cover, roof material) $162 a cubic yard, loose piles $110 small / $174 medium / $280 large, or truck-fill at $325 quarter / $580 half / $790 three-quarter / $985 full. $75 minimum, loading and disposal included, no Arizona sales tax.
Will the city just take it?
Phoenix's bulk program is appointment-based, capped at four collections a calendar year, booked up to three business days out with material out no more than seven days ahead — and you carry it to the street. That's a planning tool, not a storm response, and other Valley cities run their own separate schedules.
How fast can you come?
Same or next day in most of the Valley, with the earliest morning windows going first during monsoon season. Send photos at first light after a big cell and you'll be near the front of the queue.
Do you cut the tree, or just haul it?
We buck and load what's already down. We don't fell standing trees or work near power lines — that's a licensed tree service or the utility. Many landscapers will cut and leave the pile; that pile is our job.
Why is green debris cheaper than fence and roof material?
Because disposal genuinely costs less: City of Phoenix 2026 rates tip clean green organics at about $32–$37 a ton versus $55 a ton for trash. We keep the two separated so the load qualifies.
Will insurance pay for it?
Often for structural damage and the debris tied to a covered loss; usually not for plain yard debris. And an adjuster's contractor works the claim's timeline, not this week's — clearing now at a flat price doesn't conflict with the claim, so keep your photos.
Do you take water-damaged contents?
Yes — rolled carpet $92, sofa $170, queen mattress $139, metal shelving $95, or the whole lot as truck-fill. We're not a restoration company and we'll say so if that's what you need.
Is there sales tax on the service?
No. Arizona has no TPT classification for labor-only junk hauling, so there's no sales-tax line on your bill.
Flat and photo-quoted. Green and yard debris — limbs, fronds, uprooted trees, shredded landscaping — is $119 per cubic yard. Structural debris such as fence panels, patio-cover framing, roof tile and underlayment is $162 per cubic yard. A single pile prices as a pile: $110 small, $174 medium, $280 large. A whole-yard clear prices as truck-fill at $325 for a quarter truck, $580 half, $790 three-quarter, $985 full. $75 minimum, loading and disposal included, and no Arizona sales tax on the service.
Not on the timeline a storm creates. The city's bulk service is appointment-based: a maximum of 4 collections per calendar year, scheduled up to 3 business days out, with material set out no more than 7 days ahead of the appointment. That is a reasonable system for a planned garage purge and the wrong tool for a mesquite lying across your driveway on a Tuesday morning. It also spends one of your four annual collections on a storm you didn't choose. Suburban cities across the Valley run their own separate schedules with their own rules — check yours before you plan around it.
Same or next day in most of the Valley, and we book early-morning windows first during monsoon season because July and August afternoons run past 110 degrees and a yard full of wet green waste is heavy, slow work. The night a big cell moves through, the queue fills fast — send photos as soon as it is light enough to see the damage and you will be earlier in it.
Both, and we separate them. Blown-down block-wall caps, wood and steel fence panels, shredded patio covers and shade sails, roof tile, underlayment and torn fascia all price as construction and structural debris at $162 per cubic yard. Clean green waste — limbs, fronds, uprooted shrubs — prices lower at $119 per cubic yard because it is genuinely cheaper to dispose of, and we keep the two apart on the truck rather than mixing them into one load.
Because it is a real cost difference, not a slogan. The City of Phoenix 2026 rate schedule tips clean green organics at roughly $32 to $37 per ton at its transfer stations, versus $55 per ton for trash. When a crew throws your palm fronds in on top of broken fence board, the whole load pays the trash rate. We keep clean green material clean, which is better disposal and part of why our yard-debris rate sits below our structural rate.
We are haulers, not arborists. We will cut and buck what is already down so it fits the truck — a toppled mesquite, a split palo verde, a snapped palm — and we clear the whole mess from the yard. What we do not do is climb or fell a standing damaged tree or touch anything near a power line; that is a licensed tree service or the utility. Many Valley landscapers are the mirror image: they will cut it and leave the pile, which is exactly the job we get called for the next morning.
Sometimes for structural damage, rarely for yard debris. Homeowner policies typically respond to damage to the house, the fence or a covered structure and to the removal of debris tied to that covered loss — but a yard full of fallen limbs and fronds with no structural damage is usually the homeowner's cost. Your adjuster's contractor will also work on the claim's timeline, not this week's. Get the yard clear now at a flat price and keep the photos; the two do not conflict.
Yes. A microburst that takes out a patio cover often puts water through a slider or a roof at the same time, and what comes out is soaked carpet and pad, ruined garage storage, particle-board furniture that swelled overnight, and boxes that will not dry. We load that with the rest of it — rolled carpet is $92, a sofa $170, a queen mattress $139, or the whole lot prices as truck-fill. We are not a water-restoration company and will tell you when you need one.