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Earthwork & Site Services · Utah

Excavation, Land Clearing & GradingContractor in Utah

We clear, grade and prep land across Utah — insured and Blue Stakes compliant. Free on-site estimate, and a fixed written quote back within 24 hours. No surprise charges. We speak Spanish.

Takes 30 seconds · No obligation · Most quotes back same day · You reach the crew, not a call center

Wolves Earthworks operator checking grade on an excavated foundation, Wasatch range behind, Utah
24h
Fixed written quote
48h
On-site estimate
1yr
Written warranty
100%
Own crew, own iron

Who we work with

Find Yourself Below

We work for the person who owns the dirt and for the people who build on it. Pick the one that sounds like you.

I own land

Property Owners & Self-Builders

Clearing a lot, digging a foundation, fixing drainage or prepping for a new build. You get a fixed written price and a start date you can plan around.

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I'm a general contractor

Your Utah Site Work Sub

Send the plans or the scope and you get a bid in 24 hours, COI in one. Excavation, clearing, grading, demolition, trenching, base and compaction. Our operators, our iron, our schedule — we hit your dates.

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I build homes or develop land

Builders & Developers

Lot clearing, house pads, foundation excavation, rough and finish grade, driveway prep and haul-off — or mass grading, roads and utilities on a full subdivision. One sub from raw ground to finish grade, build after build.

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I'm a trade contractor

Concrete · Foundation · Pool · Landscape

We do the step before yours. Excavation and base prep for slabs and driveways, footings and basements, pool digs and haul-off, grading and drainage for retaining walls. You keep the client — we just move the dirt.

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What we do

Utah Excavation & Site Work Services

From raw ground to a pad that's ready to build on. One crew, one schedule, one number to call.

Land Clearing & Lot Clearing

Brush, trees, stumps and debris removed so the lot is workable. Haul-off, forestry mulching or on-site disposal where the city allows it.

$1,200–$2,400 / acre

Excavation & Foundation Digging

Footings, basements, cuts and over-excavation dug to plan and to grade, with certified operators on heavy iron.

Quoted per scope

Grading & Land Leveling

Rough and finish grading so water runs away from the structure and the surface holds. Cut and fill balanced on site when we can.

$80–$106 / hr, machine + operator

Site Preparation

The whole package before the slab: clear, strip, cut, fill, compact and stake. Pad ready for the concrete crew.

$5,000–$10,000 typical home

Utility Trenching

Water, sewer, septic, electrical and drainage lines trenched to code depth, bedded and backfilled properly.

Quoted per linear foot

Demolition & Debris Removal

Structures, slabs, barns and outbuildings taken down, hauled off and disposed of legally. Site left clean.

Quoted per structure

Road Base & Compaction

Gravel, road base and compaction for driveways, access roads and building pads. Compaction tested where the job calls for it.

Quoted per square foot

Small Demolition & Shed Removal

Sheds, decks, fences, carports, old slabs and small outbuildings taken down and hauled off. The jobs the big demo outfits won't bother quoting.

Quoted on the site visit

Not sure what you need?

Most people aren't — "grading" and "excavation" get mixed up all the time. Tell us what you're trying to build and we'll tell you what the job actually is.

Ask us on the site visit
Land clearing in progress on a Utah lot Land clearing
Grading a building pad with a dozer in Utah Grading
Excavator digging a utility trench with pipe staged alongside in Utah Utility trenching

Real numbers, before you call

What Land Clearing and Excavation Actually Cost in Utah

Every other contractor makes you call to find out. Here are the honest ranges for Utah so you can budget today.

Land clearing

$1,200 – $2,400per acre

Light brush on flat, accessible ground sits at the low end. Heavy timber, steep slope or a lot you can barely get a machine into runs higher.

Grading

$80 – $106per hour

Machine and operator together. A typical residential lot is a half day to two days depending on how much dirt has to move.

Site prep for a new home

$5,000 – $10,000typical Utah build

Clearing, cut and fill, compaction and pad. Steep or rocky lots and long utility runs push this up.

Lot clearing, 5 acres

$3,500 – $20,000light brush → wooded

Five acres of flat, light brush is a different job from five acres of trees on a hillside. The spread is real — that's why we walk it first.

Residential excavation

$1,650 – $6,700typical project

Footings, basement digs, drainage corrections and over-excavation. Priced by cubic yard and access, not guessed.

Utility trenching

Per linear footdepth & soil dependent

Depth to code, soil type and rock decide the number. Rock hammering is quoted separately and never sprung on you mid-job.

Slope

Flat ground is fast. Once the machine has to work across a grade, production drops and the hours go up.

Vegetation density

Sagebrush and scrub clear quickly. Mature trees mean stumps, root balls and hauling volume.

Access & disposal

Can a lowboy reach the lot? Can the material stay on site or does every yard get trucked out? This swings the price more than acreage does.

Your number doesn't move. We walk the site, price slope, density, access and disposal, and hand you one fixed written figure. That figure is what you pay — no change orders unless you change the scope, in writing, first.

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How it works

From Call to Cleared Lot in 4 Steps

Every step has a time attached to it. If we miss one, you hear it from us before you have to ask.

1

The call

Ten minutes. What you're building, where the lot is, and what's in your way. You reach the crew, not a call center.

Same day
2

Site visit

We walk the ground, check slope, soil, access and utilities, and photograph what matters.

Within 48 hours
3

Fixed written quote

One number, in writing, with the scope spelled out. Permits and Blue Stakes handled by us.

Within 24 hours of the visit
4

Execution

Confirmed start date, daily progress update, and a site left clean. Haul-off is in the price, not an extra.

Start date confirmed in writing
Wolves Earthworks excavator, skid steer, mulcher and dump truck with the crew on a Utah job site

Why Wolves

Why Utah Property Owners Choose Wolves Earthworks

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    A price that doesn't move

    Fixed written quote before we start. What we quote is what you pay, and haul-off and cleanup are inside that number.

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    Insured, and we prove it

    $2M general liability and workers' comp. Certificate of insurance in your inbox within the hour — ask and see.

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    Blue Stakes 811 before every dig

    Marked on every single job. We also pull the grading and land disturbance permit so the city never shuts you down.

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    Our people, our machines

    No subcontracted crews. The operator who quotes your job is the operator who runs it, and you get his name.

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    One-year written warranty

    Compaction and drainage backed for twelve months. If it settles or it pools, we come back.

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    We speak Spanish

    Crew, site visit and quote in Spanish from start to finish. See the site in Spanish.

Our promise

New Company. Not New to the Work.

We won’t pretend to have a hundred reviews we haven’t earned yet. Here’s what we put in writing instead — before you pay us anything.

✓

The price doesn’t move. You get one fixed number in writing before we start, with the scope spelled out. Haul-off and cleanup are inside it. If we find something that changes the job, we stop and call you — you never discover a change order on the invoice.

Fixed written quoteWithin 24 h of the site visit
✓

One year, in writing. Compaction and drainage carry a written twelve-month warranty. If water goes somewhere it shouldn’t, or the ground settles where we compacted it, we come back and fix it at our cost.

Written warrantyCompaction & drainage
✓

Insured, and we prove it. $2M general liability and workers’ comp. Ask for the certificate of insurance and it’s in your inbox within the hour. Blue Stakes 811 is marked on every job before a machine touches the ground.

COI on requestBlue Stakes on every dig

We’d rather earn the first review than borrow one. Be our first customer.

Projects

Recent Utah Projects: Before & After

Raw ground on one side, buildable pad on the other. Same crew, same iron, every job.

Before and after of a land clearing job in Salt Lake City, Utah Land clearing · before & after
Before and after of a lot clearing job in Utah Lot clearing · before & after
Ground mulched down to a clean finish after forestry mulching in Utah Forestry mulching
Finished grade sloping away from the structure on a Utah property Grading
Building pad prepped, compacted and staked, ready for the concrete crew Site preparation
Site left clean after demolition and debris haul-off in Utah Demolition & debris removal

Equipment

Our Equipment and Operators

Our iron, our operators, our schedule. Nothing about your job gets handed to a crew you didn't hire.

Wolves Earthworks operator checking grade while the track excavator digs a foundation in Utah

Track Excavator

Smooth drum roller compacting road base on a Utah driveway while the crew rakes the edge

Smooth Drum Roller

Forestry mulcher clearing brush on a Utah lot

Forestry Mulcher

Wolves Earthworks equipment fleet and dump truck in Utah

Skid Steer & Dump Truck

Permits & safety

Permits and Land Disturbance Rules in Utah

This is the part that gets people fined. It's also the part nobody else puts on their homepage.

You almost certainly need a permit

Most Utah cities prohibit starting any grading, excavation, filling or clearing before the building department issues a permit. Disturbing more than one acre normally triggers it, and some cities — West Jordan among them — have a dedicated clearing and grubbing land disturbance permit.

We pull it for you

We handle the application, the city and the inspections as part of the job. You don't chase paperwork and you don't get a stop-work order taped to your fence.

Blue Stakes 811 on every dig

Utah's call-before-you-dig system gets called on every single job, without exception. Hitting a gas or fiber line is the most expensive mistake in this trade and it is entirely avoidable.

Verify us before you sign

Ask for the certificate of insurance — you'll have it within the hour. Any contractor who hesitates on that is telling you something.

Where we work

Excavation and Land Clearing Service Areas in Utah

Based on the Wasatch Front, working statewide. Each city page covers local soils, permits and recent jobs.

Utah County

  • Provo
  • Lehi
  • Orem
  • Saratoga Springs
  • Eagle Mountain
  • American Fork

Salt Lake County

  • Salt Lake City
  • West Jordan
  • Sandy
  • Draper
  • Herriman
  • Riverton

Davis & Weber

  • Layton
  • Kaysville
  • Ogden
  • Bountiful
  • Syracuse
  • Clearfield

Southern Utah & Wasatch Back

  • St. George
  • Hurricane
  • Cedar City
  • Park City
  • Heber City
  • Tooele

Straight answers

Frequently Asked Questions About Utah Excavation

How much does land clearing cost per acre in Utah?
Most Utah land clearing runs $1,200 to $2,400 per acre. Light brush on flat, accessible ground sits at the low end; heavy timber, steep slope or tight access pushes it higher. Five acres of light brush can land around $3,500, while five wooded or broken acres can reach $20,000. We give you the exact number in writing after the site visit, and it doesn't move.
Is grading the same as excavating?
No, and almost everyone mixes them up. Excavation is moving dirt out — digging footings, basements, trenches. Grading is shaping what's left so water runs away from the structure and the surface is stable enough to build on. Most projects need both. We do both with the same crew, so nobody points fingers when something doesn't line up.
Do I need a permit to clear land in Utah?
Usually yes. Utah cities generally prohibit beginning any grading, excavation, filling or clearing before the building department issues a permit, and disturbing more than one acre normally requires one. Rules vary by city and county. We pull the permit for you and deal with the city as part of the job.
How do you quote land clearing?
We walk the site and price five things: acreage, vegetation density, slope, machine access, and what happens to the material — hauled off, mulched in place, or burned where the city allows it. Then you get one fixed written number with the scope spelled out.
How long does it take to clear and grade a lot?
A typical quarter-acre residential lot is one to two days. One to three acres of light brush runs two to four days. Heavily wooded or rocky ground takes longer. You get the day count in writing before you sign, plus a confirmed start date.
Are you insured in Utah?
Yes — $2M general liability and workers' compensation. Ask for the certificate of insurance and you'll have it within the hour.
Do you call Blue Stakes before digging?
Always. Blue Stakes of Utah 811 is marked on every job before a machine touches the ground. There is no version of this job where we skip it.
Do you work with general contractors as a subcontractor?
Yes. Bids back in 24 hours, COI in one, W-9 on request, and a committed start date we schedule around your build. Pad prep, mass excavation, trenching, road base and compaction. Request a bid.
Do you speak Spanish?
Yes. Our whole crew speaks Spanish and we can give you your quote in Spanish. See the full site in Spanish.

Free on-site estimate

Get Your Exact Number in Writing

Tell us where the lot is and what's on it. We'll be out within 48 hours and your fixed written quote lands within 24 hours of that visit.

  • ✓ Free, no obligation, no pressure call afterwards
  • ✓ One fixed price — haul-off and cleanup included
  • ✓ We pull the permit and mark Blue Stakes
  • ✓ One-year written warranty on compaction and drainage
  • ✓ General contractors: bid in 24 h, COI in 1 h

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