As might be expected, Cuyahoga County’s Existing Tree Canopy is not evenly distributed across its 59 communities.

• About half (31) of the County’s communities have less tree canopy than the mean (37.6%) and nearly 68% of the total population lives in these communities.
• With the exception of Bratenahl, nearly all the leading Tree Canopy communities are located in outlying suburbs.
• Several inner ring suburban communities exceeded the county average, including Cleveland Heights, Fairview Park, Bedford, Shaker Heights, and South Euclid.
• The City of Cleveland’s Tree Canopy was well below the county average, at 18.9%.
• Below Cleveland were the communities of Warrensville Heights, Brook Park, and North Randall.

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Tree canopy metrics summarized by community

Existing tree canopy summarized by community

Possible planting area summarized by community

		Existing Tree Canopy		Possible Planting Area Vegetated		Possible Planting Area Impervious		Not Suitable for Planting		Rank
Name	Total Land Cover, Excluding Water (Acres)	Acres	Percent	Acres	Percent	Acres	Percent	Acres	Percent	Existing Tree Canopy	Existing Impervious
Bay Village	2,876.7	1,411.3	49.1%	760.8	26.4%	241.8	8.4%	473.2	16.4%	12	41
Beachwood	3,339.8	822.2	24.6%	1,109.4	33.2%	681.5	20.4%	742.2	22.2%	46	18
Bedford	3,394.3	1,407.3	41.5%	922.2	27.2%	542.3	16.0%	542.6	16.0%	23	29
Bedford Heights	2,912.4	679.6	23.3%	1,067.7	36.7%	575.9	19.8%	594.7	20.4%	48	16
Bentleyville	1,655.6	1,246.2	75.3%	316.4	19.1%	36.5	2.2%	90.2	5.4%	2	57
Berea	3,633.9	1,204.1	33.1%	1,065.7	29.3%	636.8	17.5%	792.6	21.8%	36	23
Bratenahl	650.6	311.1	47.8%	174.8	26.9%	66.2	10.2%	107.2	16.5%	14	37
Brecksville	12,326.7	7,833.3	63.5%	2,690.6	21.8%	739.3	6.0%	1,221.6	9.9%	6	54
Broadview Heights	8,280.7	3,752.8	45.3%	2,647.0	32.0%	820.5	9.9%	1,115.8	13.5%	16	45
Brook Park	4,839.9	891.7	18.4%	1,554.9	32.1%	1,302.6	26.9%	1,124.0	23.2%	58	4
Brooklyn	2,737.4	563.6	20.6%	839.7	30.7%	696.3	25.4%	650.5	23.8%	52	5
Brooklyn Heights	1,141.7	280.2	24.5%	375.1	32.9%	253.0	22.2%	249.9	21.9%	47	17
Chagrin Falls	1,346.1	755.6	56.1%	339.1	25.2%	99.4	7.4%	178.3	13.2%	9	46
Chagrin Falls Township	311.9	243.1	77.9%	57.9	18.6%	3.9	1.2%	10.6	3.4%	1	59
Cleveland	49,552.9	9,491.4	19.2%	13,356.2	27.0%	12,411.0	25.0%	14,943.6	30.2%	57	3
Cleveland Heights	5,157.1	2,288.6	44.4%	1,059.3	20.5%	831.3	16.1%	986.9	19.1%	17	24
Cuyahoga Heights	2,006.9	420.0	20.9%	616.8	30.7%	534.1	26.6%	502.6	25.0%	54	8
East Cleveland	1,981.1	691.0	34.9%	419.9	21.2%	381.6	19.3%	493.2	24.9%	31	13
Euclid	6,840.0	1,873.8	27.4%	1,988.3	29.1%	1,369.7	20.0%	1,639.3	24.0%	44	15
Fairview Park	2,988.3	1,303.7	43.6%	771.7	25.8%	340.7	11.4%	606.8	20.3%	19	32
Garfield Heights	4,594.5	1,032.3	22.5%	1,554.6	33.8%	1,150.8	25.0%	893.2	19.4%	50	14
Gates Mills	5,702.3	4,265.3	74.8%	1,089.6	19.1%	132.5	2.3%	331.1	5.8%	3	56
Glenwillow	1,789.9	611.4	34.2%	870.1	48.6%	171.6	9.6%	165.3	9.2%	34	48
Highland Heights	3,263.9	986.6	30.2%	1,196.4	36.7%	409.2	12.5%	691.3	21.2%	40	30
Highland Hills	1,267.4	333.4	26.3%	459.3	36.2%	125.7	9.9%	358.7	28.3%	45	47
Hunting Valley	4,436.4	3,077.2	69.4%	1,178.4	26.6%	67.4	1.5%	194.3	4.4%	5	58
Independence	6,037.8	2,689.2	44.5%	1,844.7	30.6%	870.6	14.4%	694.9	11.5%	18	38
Lakewood	3,522.4	1,003.1	28.5%	862.2	24.5%	723.3	20.5%	976.9	27.7%	43	6
Linndale	45.1	8.8	19.6%	9.1	20.2%	13.6	30.1%	13.6	30.1%	55	2
Lyndhurst	2,823.9	975.3	34.5%	859.6	30.4%	398.0	14.1%	603.6	21.4%	32	28
Maple Heights	3,301.6	766.1	23.2%	996.3	30.2%	843.7	25.6%	696.7	21.1%	49	7
Mayfield	2,528.2	1,410.4	55.8%	557.9	22.1%	249.0	9.8%	324.6	12.8%	8	44
Mayfield Heights	2,667.9	566.0	21.2%	882.7	33.1%	623.7	23.4%	605.3	22.7%	51	11
Middleburg Heights	5,121.1	1,709.5	33.4%	1,642.5	32.1%	890.3	17.4%	919.2	17.9%	35	27
Moreland Hills	4,601.5	3,271.9	71.1%	809.8	17.6%	173.1	3.8%	390.3	8.5%	4	55
Newburgh Heights	374.5	76.6	20.4%	114.5	30.6%	93.1	24.9%	92.3	24.7%	53	12
North Olmsted	7,462.4	3,138.3	42.1%	2,212.1	29.6%	865.6	11.6%	1,276.0	17.1%	21	34
North Randall	495.8	53.1	10.7%	131.3	26.5%	200.9	40.5%	111.9	22.6%	59	1
North Royalton	13,599.5	6,647.1	48.9%	4,721.2	34.7%	1,073.4	7.9%	1,254.8	9.2%	13	50
Oakwood	2,201.4	669.5	30.4%	942.6	42.8%	331.6	15.1%	264.6	12.0%	39	31
Olmsted Falls	2,574.9	1,176.9	45.7%	846.6	32.9%	252.6	9.8%	334.3	13.0%	15	43
Olmsted Township	6,132.5	2,561.9	41.8%	2,276.9	37.1%	420.0	6.8%	967.3	15.8%	24	51
Orange	2,416.0	1,244.7	51.5%	769.5	31.9%	120.4	5.0%	295.4	12.2%	10	53
Parma	12,799.2	3,703.6	28.9%	4,149.4	32.4%	2,522.3	19.7%	2,468.2	19.3%	42	19
Parma Heights	2,687.0	827.2	30.8%	828.0	30.8%	504.4	18.8%	529.8	19.7%	38	20
Pepper Pike	4,570.6	2,252.0	49.3%	1,311.5	28.7%	351.2	7.7%	681.1	14.9%	11	49
Richmond Heights	2,825.1	1,032.1	36.5%	991.8	35.1%	334.5	11.8%	474.6	16.8%	29	33
Rocky River	2,994.0	974.2	32.5%	830.9	27.8%	465.1	15.5%	758.9	25.3%	37	22
Seven Hills	3,140.7	1,095.6	34.9%	1,219.5	38.8%	356.2	11.3%	472.6	15.0%	30	35
Shaker Heights	4,021.6	1,624.1	40.4%	980.8	24.4%	597.8	14.9%	850.8	21.2%	26	26
Solon	12,887.3	5,398.3	41.9%	4,362.3	33.8%	1,330.9	10.3%	1,966.1	15.3%	22	42
South Euclid	2,975.2	1,174.3	39.5%	755.3	25.4%	507.7	17.1%	541.5	18.2%	28	25
Strongsville	15,682.6	6,765.3	43.1%	5,046.1	32.2%	1,777.4	11.3%	2,182.8	13.9%	20	40
University Heights	1,167.3	337.3	28.9%	293.4	25.1%	264.6	22.7%	272.0	23.3%	41	10
Valley View	3,508.4	1,432.4	40.8%	1,199.5	34.2%	579.5	16.5%	398.3	11.4%	27	39
Walton Hills	4,379.2	2,596.3	59.3%	970.7	22.2%	322.2	7.4%	520.7	11.9%	7	52
Warrensville Heights	2,641.0	503.8	19.1%	921.4	34.9%	644.1	24.4%	578.9	21.9%	56	9
Westlake	10,088.0	4,155.2	41.2%	3,149.8	31.2%	1,196.8	11.9%	1,658.9	16.4%	25	36
Woodmere	208.7	71.4	34.2%	60.3	28.9%	41.4	19.8%	35.6	17.1%	33	21
CUYAHOGA COUNTY TOTAL	291,510.5	109,688.3	37.6%	86,032.2	29.5%	44,560.2	15.3%	53,912.3	18.5%

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