Fill Dirt Delivery in Modesto, CA

Ordering fill dirt delivery in Modesto, CA

Modesto crews and homeowners can order fill dirt delivery straight from this page. Pick the number of tons, enter your ZIP and the delivered price appears before you commit. Fill Dirt is sold by the ton, the smallest order is 2 tons, and a larger order carries a lower rate per ton. A city of roughly 220,000 people in the Stockton metro area keeps a steady flow of small grading, backfill and pad jobs going, and this material is the workhorse for most of them. If you are comparing it across the state, the Fill Dirt in California page lists the other cities.

Which jobs call for it

Fill dirt is plain brown earth meant for volume. Use it to bring a low yard up to the level of the walkway, to backfill behind a new retaining wall, to bury a collapsed septic or irrigation trench, or to build a firm pad for a shed, hot tub or small slab. It does not grow lawns well, so plan a topsoil cap if grass is the end goal.

For anything a vehicle will drive across, treat fill dirt as the lower layer. #57 Crushed Stone makes a stable cap for drives and work areas, while Asphalt Millings suit a lane or yard that needs a tight, rolled finish.

Working out the tons

Walk the area and note how deep the fill must be at its thinnest and thickest points. Average those, change the depth to feet, and multiply it by length and width to get cubic feet. Twenty-seven cubic feet make one cubic yard, and a yard of this earth weighs a bit more than a ton, so your tonnage will usually land slightly above your yardage.

Prefer to let a tool do it? Drop your measurements into the calculator and use the result as your starting figure. Round up a little for the spots that always run deeper than they look.

How delivery works around Modesto

The driver brings the full load to your address and dumps it in one place, so decide where the pile should sit before the truck shows up. A paved apron or a firm, level patch of driveway works well, and a gated or tight alley deserves a mention when you order. Our page for delivery in Modesto has more on how local drops are handled.

Turlock is the nearest city in our data at 13 miles. Tracy sits 24 miles out and Stockton 25 miles.

What the delivered price covers

The figure you see is for your ZIP, so it already reflects getting the load to your site. Two small orders cost more per ton than one big one, so when a project will need several loads, order them together.

Handling the pile once it lands

Move the dirt from the pile in stages. Spread it, rake it level, and compact it before adding more. If rain is in the forecast, tarp the pile so it does not turn to mud before you can use it. Finished fill should crown very slightly so water drains away from buildings instead of pooling at the edge.

Planning a Modesto job in phases

Big fills rarely happen in a day. A typical backyard project starts with clearing and marking the area, moves to the first load and rough spreading, and ends with a final pass of raking and topdressing. Having the soil on site at the start keeps the crew busy rather than waiting.

Check your site for overhead lines, irrigation heads, buried pipes and anything you want left alone. Mark them with flags so whoever is spreading the dirt knows to work around them. A few minutes with a hose or paint on the ground saves a broken sprinkler line later.

When neighbors share a fence or a drainage swale, a quick conversation about where the pile will sit and how long it will be there avoids friction. Keep the pile off sidewalks and away from storm inlets.

About Fill Dirt

Fill dirt is a brown, mixed earth sold in bulk for filling and leveling. It is not screened to a fine texture, so it contains small stones, clay and some fibrous material, and that variety lets it lock together when compacted. It is a base material, not a growing medium.

In Modesto, Fill Dirt is sold by the ton. The delivered price is shown for your ZIP and the rate per ton falls as the order gets bigger. Orders begin at 2 tons.

Common uses are backfilling around footings and walls, closing trenches, raising low ground, building up a pad for a slab or outbuilding and regrading a yard so water leaves the house. Place it in thin lifts and compact each lift before adding the next.

What Fill Dirt costs in Modesto

Around Modesto, fill dirt is quoted by the ton with delivery layered in based on distance from the closest yard. Send your ZIP and load size and we will send back a same-hour quote with the truck rate and the per-ton figure spelled out. Plan on roughly 98 sq ft of coverage per ton at 3 inches deep, which puts a single-car driveway in the 4 to 7 ton bracket.

How crews use Fill Dirt in Modesto

Modesto contractors keep fill dirt on the order sheet for a short list of standard installs. Top of the list is erosion control, where the material is rolled out in tight urban lots and infill builds and screeded to grade. Right behind that is driveway gravel, common in dense neighborhoods where curb access is short and often paired with edging or fabric below the lift. Modesto sits at about 220,592 residents, which means we see steady weekday traffic from landscape crews and weekend pickups from owner-builders.

Delivery day in Modesto

Delivery in Modesto runs out of the nearest pit; you get a two hour arrival window the evening prior and a call when the driver leaves the scale. Plan for 12 ft of clear path for a tandem and 14 ft for a tri-axle, plus a level area at the dump point so the bed lifts straight. Standard lead time on this lane is Mon-Sat, with same-day windows held open for orders that hit the desk before 11 AM and clear payment.

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