Leaf season is here. Now booking fall cleanup and curbside leaf pickup.

Curbside Leaf Pickup in Raleigh & Surrounding Areas

Rake your leaves into a pile. We'll haul them away.
Pick your pile size, see your price, and book online in about two minutes.

How It Works

1

Book Your Pickup

Choose your pile size and book online. We’ll confirm your pickup date by text or email. Most pickups are completed within 1–3 days of booking.

2

Get Your Pile Ready

By 7 a.m. on your scheduled pickup day, rake or blow your leaves into one pile at the front of your yard, behind the curb.

3

We Haul It Away

We’ll text when we’re on the way, check your pile and confirm your final price before loading, and send a photo when we’re done. Your invoice comes by text or email.

Leaf Pickup Prices

Pick the size closest to your pile. Every price includes loading, leaf hauling, and disposal. Your final price is set at the curb, within your size’s range.

Standard

About the length of a sedan like a Honda Civic and about as tall as its hood.

$150–$200 per pickup

Book Standard

Large

About two sedans parked bumper to bumper, and about hood-height.

$250–$300 per pickup

Book Large

XL or Not Sure?

Bigger than Large, or want an exact price before you book? Send us a photo of your pile and we’ll reply with a quote.

Custom quote

Send Us a Photo

Bagged Leaf Pickup

Paper or plastic bags, set at the curb. $75 minimum for bags-only pickups.

$5 per bag

Book Bags

What Goes Into the Price

Town leaf pickup is paid for through your taxes. A private pickup service like ours takes a two-person crew, commercial equipment, and insurance to run, plus disposal fees we pay by weight.

How We Confirm Your Price

We measure your pile and set your price within its size’s range. A little over is fine. If it’s clearly a size up, or has a lot of sticks and brush mixed in, we’ll text you the new price before loading anything.

Book Your Leaf Pickup

Rather Not Rake at All?

Our fall cleanup & leaf removal service takes care of the whole yard, start to finish. Book it once or as a package through leaf season.

Which service is right for you?

  • Curbside pickup: you rake, we haul. The lowest-cost option.
  • Fall cleanup & leaf removal: we do the raking, blowing, and hauling for you.

Getting Your Pile Ready

Please Do

  • Have your pile ready by 7 a.m. on your pickup day.
  • Keep the pile behind the curb, not in the street, gutter, or ditch.
  • Keep the pile clear of mailboxes, storm drains, fences, and parked cars.
  • Put bagged leaves at the curb in one group.
  • Keep sticks and brush in a separate pile from the leaves. We can haul them away for an additional charge. If they’re mixed into the leaf pile, an extra fee may apply.

Please Do Not Include

  • Rocks, bricks, gravel, or trash. These damage our leaf vacuum.
  • Grass clippings or leaves that are mixed with dirt, pet waste, or plant pots.
  • Anything that is not leaves.

What Our Customers Say About Us

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Mark does a great job servicing my property while on the market. He povides great communication & photos at end of each service.
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I couldn’t be happier with the service from On the Block Lawn Care! Communication is excellent, work is high quality and very dependable. I even went out of town for two month during the onset of spring, and returned to everything looking great. Highly recommend!
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On the block is excellent! We’ve used them for routine yard service and special projects. They always provide superior quality, reliability and communication and a competitive price. I highly recommend them.
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I’m very happy with on the block lawn care, Mark and his team are very professional, will definitely use them again.

Why Choose On The Block Lawn Care

Trusted In The Community

We have over 100 5-star reviews from people who count on us for reliable service, quality work, and a great experience.

No Contracts Required

You don’t have to commit to any contract.

Licensed & Insured

We’re a licensed and insured business in North Carolina, giving you added confidence while our team is working on your property.

Excellent Communication

We stay in touch throughout the job, keep you informed, and remain available if questions come up.

Locally Owned & Operated

We live and work in the same communities we serve, and we take pride in building long-term relationships with our customers.

Leaf Collection Service FAQs

No. Raleigh ended loose leaf collection on September 8, 2026. The city now only takes your yard waste cart plus up to 15 paper biodegradable bags each week. If your trees drop more than that, or you’d rather not bag at all, rake everything into one pile and we’ll haul it away.

Your town or city may already pick up leaves, but the service can be limited.

Some neighborhoods fall outside the pickup area, including private roads, some HOA communities, and properties outside town limits.

Towns may limit how much they’ll take. Raleigh, for example, only collects a yard waste cart plus up to 15 paper biodegradable bags each week. If you have more than that, you’ll need another way to get rid of the excess.

Pickup schedules can be limiting. Some towns only collect loose leaves a couple of times a month, or only during a set seasonal window, which can leave piles sitting in your yard longer than you’d like.

If you need leaves gone sooner or more often than your city or town offers, book a pickup and we’ll come get them.

A little over is fine. If it’s clearly a size up, we’ll text you the new price before loading anything. If you’d rather not pay it, we can haul just the amount you booked and leave the rest, or leave the whole pile and charge a $50 trip fee to cover the visit.

Yes, as long as they’re in their own pile, separate from the leaves. We’ll haul them for an added charge. If sticks and brush are mixed into the leaves, there may be an extra fee to separate them.

We usually pick up within 1–3 days of booking. We group pickups by neighborhood to keep routes efficient and pricing more cost-effective for you. After you book, we’ll text or email you your pickup day.

Yes. Cancel or reschedule at no charge until 5 p.m. the day before your pickup. Just reply to your confirmation email or call us.

Collected leaves go to a local yard waste center.

Yes. Our pickup truck and dump trailer setup can reach places a town’s leaf truck can’t, so we can pick up from alleys, private roads, and gated communities.

Just tell us where your pile will be when you book. For gated communities, include the gate code or access instructions in your booking notes.

Yes, we offer commercial curbside leaf pickup services. Choose XL or send us the property details and we’ll put together a custom quote.

We offer our leaf vacuuming service in Raleigh and nearby communities, including Wake Forest, Rolesville, Knightdale, Youngsville, and Zebulon.

There’s more that goes into leaf pickup than it looks. Every pickup involves:

  • A two-person crew. One person runs the vacuum hose while the other manages the truck and trailer, so your pile is loaded quickly and safely.
  • Commercial equipment. A truck, a dump trailer, and a leaf vacuum that shreds leaves as it loads, so we can fit more in each trip.
  • Travel time and fuel. Getting to your home and on to the next stop.
  • Hauling and disposal. We can’t put your leaves in city yard waste, so we drive each load to a disposal site and pay fees by weight. Leaves are heavier than they look, especially when wet, and a single pile can weigh hundreds of pounds.
  • Upkeep and insurance. Equipment maintenance and coverage while we work at your home.

Yes, if you’d like us to clean up the whole yard, our fall cleanup & leaf removal service covers raking, blowing, and hauling everything away.

Curbside leaf pickup is only leaf collection from the curb. It does not include cleaning up your whole property.

Choose whatever’s best for you:

  • As soon as possible. One pickup, usually within 1–3 days of booking.
  • Weekly. Good for yards with lots of trees, where leaves keep coming down.
  • Every two weeks. Our most popular choice through the holidays: the week before Thanksgiving, early December, and the week before Christmas, then into January as needed.
  • As needed. Call us whenever your pile is ready.

 

Each pickup is priced based on your pile size that day.

Ready To Skip The Bagging and Hauling?

Rake it into a pile, book your pickup, and we’ll handle the rest.

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