Flagler County, FL Tree Protection: Protected Tree Species (2026)

04 of Article VI lists the species Flagler County protects: ash, bald cypress, bay, black cherry, cherry laurel, pond cypress, devil's walking stick, elm, hackberry, hickory, holly, southern magnolia, sweetbay magnolia, red maple, oak, persimmon, eastern redbud, eastern and southern red cedar, sweetgum, American sycamore, black and swamp tupelo, and tulip tree, once any of them reaches a six-inch diameter at breast height. County staff can accept other broadleaf hardwoods as replacements on a case-by-case finding of suitability. 03 sets the preservation math by land use: a single-family lot must preserve or replant at least 50 percent of its pre-development protected-tree caliper inches, while multi-family, mobile home park, non-residential and mixed-use parcels must hit 70 percent, calculated in aggregate caliper inches rather than tree by tree.

Trees inside a designated conservation area, jurisdictional wetland or adjacent upland buffer must be preserved in full regardless of that percentage. Where replacement trees are needed to make up the difference, they must come from the same protected species list and meet minimum caliper sizes that scale up for specimen and historic trees. The A1A Scenic Corridor overlay uses an even broader protected-species list and imposes a stiffer 1-to-3 caliper-inch replacement ratio for illegal removal within that corridor. 02 before work begins. None of this reaches Palm Coast, Flagler Beach, Beverly Beach, Marineland or Bunnell, which set their own tree-protection standards.