Miami's tree canopy is being permitted away, one folio at a time.
A live, public dashboard of every tree permit moving through the City of Miami's permitting system — removals, root prunings, specimen-tree losses, and the development applications they ride alongside. Built so neighbors don't have to fight blind.
- Source
- apps.miami.gov
- Permit format
- BD25 / BD26
- Job category
- TREE PERMIT
- Updated
- Continuously
Sample record · iBuild
Every dot on the map starts as a record like this — pulled from the city's public permit portal, parsed, and joined to property and species data.
By the numbers
A live snapshot of the dataset. Each card links the underlying records — same shape the city's portal returns, just legible.
Removals by neighborhood
- Coconut Grove14
- Wynwood6
- Brickell5
- Edgewater5
- Little Havana5
- Upper Eastside4
Permit pipeline
Of 113 tree permits in the system, 31 have been approved or issued, while only 13 have been denied.
For comparison, New York City maintains a public map of every street tree — species, condition, and planting date. Miami currently does not. The CRC formally requested this data on April 29, 2026 and was given a generic i-Tree dashboard with no permit records.
Specimen-tree removals
Trees the city is letting go.
Specimen trees — the largest, oldest, most ecologically significant — flagged for removal in active permit applications. These are not replaceable in our lifetimes.
- In Review
BD26-009673-001
Live Oak
Quercus virginiana
3101 Grand Ave· Coconut Grove- DBH
- 36″
- Age
- ~110 yr
- Spread
- 60 ft
Large specimen oak adjacent to lot line. Removal application filed 24 hours after demolition permit on the same folio.
Filed 2026-04-27Linked to construction - Applicant Upload
BD26-009843-001
Bald Cypress
Taxodium distichum
1111 Brickell Bay Dr· Brickell- DBH
- 48″
- Age
- ~131 yr
- Spread
- 76 ft
Same folio carries an active demolition or new-construction permit.
Filed 2026-04-27Linked to construction - Applicant Upload
BD26-009774-001
Mango
Mangifera indica
1900 NW 7th Ave· Overtown- DBH
- 21″
- Age
- ~51 yr
- Spread
- 35 ft
Same folio carries an active demolition or new-construction permit.
Filed 2026-04-25Linked to construction - Applicant Upload
BD26-009767-001
Live Oak
Quercus virginiana
2800 NE 2nd Ave· Wynwood- DBH
- 31″
- Age
- ~60 yr
- Spread
- 53 ft
Filed 2026-04-24 - Approved
BD26-009831-001
Mahogany
Swietenia mahagoni
3100 Matilda St· Coconut Grove- DBH
- 34″
- Age
- ~65 yr
- Spread
- 51 ft
Filed 2026-04-08 - Applicant Upload
BD26-009874-001
Strangler Fig
Ficus aurea
180 NW 25th St· Wynwood- DBH
- 22″
- Age
- ~46 yr
- Spread
- 33 ft
Filed 2026-03-09
Why this exists
Trees are public infrastructure. Permit data should be too.
On April 29, 2026 the City of Miami's Charter Review Commission formally requested every tree permit ever issued by the city. They were sent a generic i-Tree dashboard with no permit records. This dashboard exists because that one does not.
Heat
Tree canopy can drop neighborhood surface temperatures by 10–25°F. Block by block, removals are pushing Miami’s heat index higher in exactly the neighborhoods that can least afford air conditioning.
Flooding
A single mature live oak intercepts thousands of gallons of stormwater per year. Replacing one with a coconut palm replaces less than a fifth of that capacity, on a sea-level-rise coastline.
Hurricane resilience
Native Florida species — gumbo limbo, mahogany, live oak — are the most wind-resistant and the most often cleared for redevelopment. Their replacements are typically less storm-tolerant, not more.
Accountability
Mitigation fines for removing a 200-year-old tree run a few thousand dollars on a project earning millions. As neighbors testified to the CRC: the fines are a line item, not a deterrent.
Get involved
You don't need a credential to defend a tree on your block.
Search any address. Track any permit. Show up to public meetings with the data already in hand. The portal is public; this site just makes it usable.