How many visits does it take to clear iguanas?

For a small resident group away from water, one thorough visit plus burrow collapse often does it. Once you're on a canal, lake, or the Intracoastal, plan on several visits over a few weeks — the trap line and repeat passes catch the animals that were underwater or off-property the first time, and knock down the ones traveling in.

I won't quote you a fixed magic number, because it depends on how heavy the pressure is and how much water borders your lot. What I can tell you is the pattern.

The pattern I see on most properties

Numbers move in a fairly predictable way once the work starts:

• Light, non-waterfront lot: often one visit plus burrow collapse
• Canal or lake lot: several visits over a few weeks to knock it down
• The biggest drop comes in the first couple of visits
• After that it shifts from clearing to holding the numbers
• Heavy community properties keep a standing cadence to stay ahead

Clearing vs holding

There's a point on every waterfront property where the job changes character. The first visits are about clearing — cutting the population hard and collapsing the dens. Once the number is low, the water is still pushing new animals across your seawall, so the work becomes maintenance: keeping it low rather than getting it low. That's the fork where a property either finishes, because it's off the water, or shifts to an ongoing cadence, because it isn't.