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Firewood Cost and Heat By Species vs Oil, Propane, Gas and Electric

A cord of osage-orange holds more than twice the heat of a cord of eastern redcedar. See what yours is worth against the fuels in your state.

Firewood Cost and Heat

Pick your wood, price and stove. See the heat you're buying and what the same heat costs from other fuels in your state.

Heat in Your Wood–
Heat Delivered–
Your Cost per Million BTU–Delivered heat

Same Heat, Other Fuels

Season cost of the same delivered heat by fuel
Furnace Efficiencies

Defaults are the federal minimum AFUE for new non-weatherized oil (83%) and gas (80%) furnaces, 10 CFR 430.32(e). Use the figure on your furnace's label.

Heat per Cord by Species

Million BTU per cord of air-dried wood, by species

Heating Oil and Propane This Season

U.S. weekly residential heating oil and propane prices
Track My Woodpile

Data notes. Heat per cord: Utah State University Extension, Wood Heating, Table 1 (air-dried wood). Stove efficiency: EPA HHV, from the EPA database; the median is across 155 listed cordwood and crib-wood room heaters.

Fuel prices from EIA: heating oil and propane, residential, week of , excluding taxes (oil, propane; EIA surveys about 38 states, October to March); natural gas, residential, (EIA); electricity, residential, July 2026 (EIA Electric Power Monthly 5.6.A). Heat contents: heating oil 138,500 Btu/gal, propane 91,452 Btu/gal, natural gas 1,036 Btu/cu ft, electricity 3,412 Btu/kWh (EIA). Prices refreshed Oct 22, 2026.

How to Read It

  • Heat in your wood is the species’ million BTU per cord of air-dried wood times the cords you burn. Green wood delivers less, because part of the heat boils off water (USU Extension).
  • Heat delivered applies your stove’s EPA efficiency on the strict HHV basis. See HHV vs LHV efficiency.
  • Same heat, other fuels divides that delivered heat by each fuel’s heat content and furnace efficiency, then prices it at EIA’s latest figure for your state.

Want sizing instead? The stove calculator checks which stoves cover your square footage. Track your own stacks with My Woodpile.

What Changed

Fuel prices refresh weekly in heating season; database changes are logged here.

  1. EIA heating oil and propane prices for the week of Oct 19: U.S. heating oil $6.19, propane $2.69 a gallon.

  2. New tools: Firewood Cost and Heat (USU species data, EIA fuel prices by state) and the My Woodpile seasoning tracker.

  3. Compare Any Two EPA Listings: all 265 room heaters, side by side.

  4. Stove finder on /stoves/: fuel, design, heating area and five sorts.

  5. Best wood and best pellet guides gained At a Glance picks with efficiency and output bars.

  6. Launch: 12 stoves, the EPA database of 306 listings, the sizing calculator and 7 guides.