{"slug":"million-trees-miami","name":"Million Trees Miami","tagline":"Miami-Dade County's campaign to reach 30% tree canopy, anchored by the Adopt-a-Tree free tree giveaways","description":"Million Trees Miami is a Miami-Dade County initiative launched in 2011 by Neat Streets Miami (formerly the Community Image Advisory Board) within the Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department, aiming to plant one million trees and reach 30 percent tree canopy countywide, with the County committing to 300,000 trees and municipalities, schools, businesses and residents asked to plant the rest. The County's Adopt-a-Tree program, run since 2001 by the Division of Environmental Resources Management, gives single-family and duplex homeowners up to two free trees per season at large weekend events and has distributed over 262,000 trees. The County also sponsored a 2021 urban tree canopy assessment with American Forests and funds matching grants for municipal street tree planting from its Tree Trust Fund.","website_url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/global/recreation/milliontrees/home.page","logo_url":null,"founded_year":2011,"org_type":"government","scope":"regional","headquarters":{"city":"Miami","region":"Florida","country":"US","lat":25.7617,"lng":-80.1918},"volunteer_url":"https://survey123.arcgis.com/share/bd2375804ca54f0cbd10711b6b3b2fea?portalUrl=https://MDC.maps.arcgis.com","donation_url":null,"events_url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/environment/adopt-a-tree.asp","featured":false,"trees_on_record":262493,"primary_activity":"tree-adoption-giveaway","activities":[{"slug":"tree-adoption-giveaway","name":"Tree adoption & giveaways","primary":true},{"slug":"urban-forestry","name":"Urban forestry","primary":false}],"updated_at":"2026-11-08T00:02:16.194Z","url":"https://treerm.org/org/million-trees-miami","markdown_url":"https://treerm.org/org/million-trees-miami.md","api_url":"https://treerm.org/api/v1/organizations/million-trees-miami","data_note":"Miami-Dade County publishes no running count of trees planted toward the Million Trees Miami goal (originally one million trees by 2020), and its campaign pages give only canopy targets, so the figures here are the County's Adopt-a-Tree giveaway statistics: 262,493 trees adopted since 2001, including 7,950 in 2026, 7,604 in 2025 and 7,000 in 2024. Adopt-a-Tree predates Million Trees Miami and is run by a different County department (Environmental Resources Management), but its trees count toward the campaign.","derived":{"annual_trees":[{"year":2024,"value":7000},{"year":2025,"value":7604},{"year":2026,"value":7950}],"latest_annual":{"year":2026,"value":7950},"yoy":0.04550236717517096,"cagr":0.06569896580332935,"dollars_raised_per_tree":null,"cost_per_tree":null,"trees_per_volunteer":null,"survival":null,"hectares":null,"transparency":{"score":50,"label":"Partly documented","points":[{"key":"annual","label":"Publishes annual tree figures","earned":15,"max":20,"why":"3 years of annual figures on record (5 points each, up to 4 years)"},{"key":"recent","label":"Figures are recent","earned":15,"max":15,"why":"Latest annual figure is for 2026"},{"key":"sourced","label":"Every figure has a public source","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"4 of 4 figures link to a source"},{"key":"money","label":"Publishes financials or cost per tree","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No financial figure on record"},{"key":"survival","label":"Reports survival or monitoring","earned":0,"max":15,"why":"No survival or monitoring figure on record"},{"key":"verified","label":"Independently verified figure","earned":0,"max":10,"why":"All figures are the organization's own"},{"key":"programs","label":"Breaks figures down by program","earned":10,"max":10,"why":"Figures attached to named programs"},{"key":"people","label":"Reports volunteers or events","earned":0,"max":5,"why":"No volunteer figures or events on record"}]},"methodology":"https://treerm.org/methodology"},"countries":["US"],"social_links":{},"programs":[{"slug":"adopt-a-tree","name":"Adopt-a-Tree","activity":"tree-adoption-giveaway","description":"Free locally grown trees (up to two per season) for Miami-Dade single-family and duplex homeowners, distributed first-come first-served at three large giveaway events a year (2026: Hialeah Gardens in May, FIU Biscayne Bay in July, Zoo Miami in September); run by the County's Division of Environmental Resources Management.","url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/environment/adopt-a-tree.asp","started_year":2001,"ended_year":null},{"slug":"street-tree-matching-grants","name":"Neat Streets Miami street tree matching grants","activity":"urban-forestry","description":"Matching grants from the County's Tree Trust Fund to municipalities, schools and nonprofits for street and park tree planting that counts toward the Million Trees Miami goal; partners can also register their own plantings with the campaign.","url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/global/recreation/milliontrees/getting-to-a-million-trees.page","started_year":2011,"ended_year":null}],"metrics":[{"metric_type":"trees_distributed","year":2024,"value":7000,"is_cumulative":false,"program":"adopt-a-tree","source_url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/environment/adopt-a-tree.asp","source_note":"Adopt-a-Tree page, 'Trees adopted each year' table: 2024 = 7,000 (2023 = 6,898; 2022 = 7,500; 2021 = 3,090)","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_distributed","year":2025,"value":7604,"is_cumulative":false,"program":"adopt-a-tree","source_url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/environment/adopt-a-tree.asp","source_note":"Adopt-a-Tree page, 'Trees adopted each year' table: 2025 = 7,604","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_distributed","year":2026,"value":7950,"is_cumulative":false,"program":"adopt-a-tree","source_url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/environment/adopt-a-tree.asp","source_note":"Adopt-a-Tree page, 'Trees adopted each year' table: 2026 = 7,950 (three events: about 2,600 in May, over 2,000 in July, over 2,500 in September)","confidence":"reported"},{"metric_type":"trees_distributed","year":2026,"value":262493,"is_cumulative":true,"program":"adopt-a-tree","source_url":"https://www.miamidade.gov/environment/adopt-a-tree.asp","source_note":"Adopt-a-Tree page, 'Trees adopted each year' table: 'Total trees adopted: 262,493' (2001-2026); also 'Since the program's inception in 2001, more than 250,000 trees have been distributed throughout Miami-Dade County'","confidence":"reported"}],"upcoming_events":[],"license":"CC-BY-4.0"}