Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Alaska FIREWOOD COST...??? And how sold...???

Where you live how much does firewood cost...?? And how do they sell it. Pick-up truck load, true cord, so-called "face Cord" or some other goofy amount...???

Please identify if you live in Alaska.

Lots of ways to get firewood up there...varies from year to year. It pays to be ready...I got a lot of wood on short notice due to having a sharp saw and a pickup. In 5.5 years I got firewood from the JBER firewood area, from the BLM or whatever office property off Lake Otis (birch bucked to length), some guy on AOD who needed trees cleared out in Wasilly, and neighbor's client's place out by biglake. Heated exclusively with wood and never bought any. Prevailing word was that any wood purchased up there was wet, so drying time needed accounted for. I had no problems cutting in the spring and summer, splitting it small and burning it that year.

That’s a good question because I haven’t met an honest firewood guy in Ketchikan yet. A truck load can go $250 and I’ve seen “cords” go around $350 depending on species. “Cords” are always short…and usually from a short bed pickup plastered with monster energy decals.

Gave up on easy and just pull my own.

SE Oregon here. $250 a cord for split Ponderosa Pine. Cut it yourself and the forest used to charge $5 a cord. This year an 8-cord permit is free. We can take standing or fallen dead. There's 3.6 cords in there, and we typically use 2.5. Five layers deep at 15-inch lengths. All Western Larch. Most sales, however, will not do stacks that tight. A local industrial level commercial guy does about $500 K a year, but he packs it down to treeless Nevada and probably doubles the price.




Have about a six-year supply stacked just yards away.

Pure Alaskan birch goes $400 a cord delivered up here in interior Alaska. In the fairbanks area, it's illegal to sell green wood.

Seasoned Alaskan birch has similar BTU's as oak,maple or beech.

If available, its a much better deal than spruce, which is terrible firewood.

A cord is 4x4x8ft stacked. I fell, buck and split about 20-30 cord of birch a year.

I also mill a bunch of birch and spruce.

Hell, Mainer. It’s almost illegal to burn wood in Fairbanks.

210.00 - 240.00 a cord delivered for mixed hardwood around here {upstate NY}. Most commonly sold by the face cord {4'x 8' x 16"} at 70.00 - 80.00 per.

Here in MI, when they logged our property they would deliver a trailer to a person for $1000. Roughly 10 cord. You gotta cut and split. Logs are roughly 10'long.

We don't have much logging going anymore, but a load of 32 footers used to be about $400 at about dozen cords.

Only time I’ve bought “firewood” was a load of slab and ends from Northland Wood in Fairbanks. Good stuff for kindling.

Can’t quote you the current price, but my Crew Cab Silverado’s bed, which I think is just short of 6ft, holds a face cord when stacked in and level with the top. Sort of a rough measure to keep your wood guy honest. I’m just feeding a fireplace seasonally, so I usually can cut enough on our place for that.

A guy in Hope, Alaska is selling cord of split mixed Birch/Spruce for $400.00

One gallon of #2 fuel oil is 140,000 btu. One cord of douglas fir is about 21,000,000 btu. One cord of doug fir equals about 150 gallons of #2 fuel oil. Assuming a gallon of fuel oil is $4.00/gallon. 150 gallons is $600.00 dollars. Guys selling cords of wood delivered in the range of $250-400/cord are cutting their own throats. Around here in rural Ea. Wa. $250-300/cord is about the going rate. These guys do not put much value on their time.

That's what its worth, its cheaper than oil otherwise most would not fool around with burning wood. Good backup, but a lot of work even if you have it delivered. Aurora E gets over 400 delivered, there are people that will deliver tree lenght cords for around 3 bills a cord.

I burn solely wood as my primary heat source. September to middle of May.

That level of hard cold, unassisted by heating fuel or natural gas, makes this Suburbia, hobby stuff yall talking about, seem like childs-play.

Many others up here in interior Alaska burn solely wood. It like having a second fkn job. Come 20-50 below zero for months, you're married to that stove.

Anyhow, so many horrific house/cabin fires up north here by folks who burn spruce. The sht is so caustic, it eats a stove pipe to a brittle shell in 2 years of continuous use.

When the pockets of pitch errupt into sparks, the pressure draws up the pipe, and the sparks can get through the pipe joints and catch your trusses on fire. My neighbor almost lost his home, two months after he switched to spruce. He ran out of birch.

This is what a pipe looks like after 1 month of spruce. You must sweep the pipe every 3 weeks, just to get safe:

We don't get/stay quite that cold for as long but still burn about 6-7 cords here in the Virginia Appalachians.Oct-April.
100% wood heat
All seasoned hardwood-oak, locust, hickory and little cherry.

As I approach 60 I can see this as being unsustainable for much longer and also cannot see where buying firewood would be a wise choice.
Just my .02

Just paid $325 for cut, split, delivered, seasoned one year hardwood mainly maple, ash, oak, and some birch.

Raeford,there are many older fellas in my area who put up wood in their 70s and 80s. When they stop, is when they pass away.

Keeps the Ole fellers moving.

But.....They're Alaskan old men. A different breed of gruff, stubbornness,and toughness.

Been heating solely with wood for 35 years and cut for my FIL for 5 or so prior.

10 more years would be my max[if I can go that long].

Hell, I even stepped down to Echo on my last saw purchase after 30 years with my 028
Not cutting for another 30 years so save $200

AGL4now;
Good afternoon, I hope the day is a good one up in your part of Alaska and you're well.

From the south Okanagan in BC, it looks like mixed pine and Doug Fir runs about $275 a cord and Doug fir is averaging about $350 a cord.

There seems to be no set way to sell it, some vendors by the pickup and some with dump trailers.

Hopefully that was at least somewhat useful for data.

All the best.

Dwayne