How to estimate how much firewood you'll need this winter 

Great information for someone who needs to heat their home. I loved the bacon comment and agree with it 100%!! We just got done with our splitting project from our aged logs, we had 300 rounds to split that averaged 12-18" the boss made me rent a splitter to get ahead of this project and now I can keep up and do the rest by hand. We only use our firewood for outdoor campfires and I go through about 1-2 cords a year. We have an abundance of Osage Orange (hedge apple) and Black Locust trees which burn really nicely.

I am in Quebec, I burn about 10 cords of 8'x5'x 16'' logs I keep an inventory of 20 to 25 cords in order to season it 2 years ! Have a nice winter.

I use 3 cords on average in northern Ohio using only hard woods. With a Dorlet HT 2000. It's our primary heat source. We are home almost 24 hours

Personally I get as much firewood as possible.

I live in SW Missouri, an older house 2bdrm 1000 sq ft house, just my dog and I, a not efficient wood stove and only heat with wood. It gets below freezing here some sub 0 but around 20° a lot. I burn about 8 ricks (2 2/3 cords) a year depending on how harsh it is. I cut, split and stack my own wood and currently have about a 4 year supply. I also give away about 20 ricks a year to family and elderly folk that can't afford or do it themselves. I'm 72 myself, but the exercise is great!

Definitely a lot of variables that go into firewood consumption… and you can definitely never have too much! My rule of thumb is 5 cord in southern NH. Non-cat insert in our prior 2000 sq ft cape, used 5 cords per winter. Now in a 2600 sq ft 1790s colonial with full attic (not included in the sq footage but gets heat), 5-6 cord combined between a hybrid catalytic free standing stove and hybrid catalytic insert. Our house has great solar gain, and is reasonably insulated (we had the roof done with closed cell spray foam). They built to maximize solar gain way back then to leverage the sun, and boy is that nice! More important than sq footage is heated volume… our ceilings are 7-7.5ft, which equates to 6-12% less volume of air to heat than 8ft ceilings. My parents have a non-cat insert and also burn 5 cord in our area. I did an interesting analysis last winter on burn time and discovered that for medium and large stoves, if you keep them going 24/7, you will burn somewhere around 5-6 cubic feet of firewood per 24 hour day - or 1/4 to 1/3 cord per week.

I use 5-6 cords in northeast Massachusetts. I have a Drolet ht2000 in the basement of approximately 2500 sq’ colonial. The basement is about another 1000 sq’ where my wood stove is. On sub zero days, I’ll run my fireplace as well. On regular winter day the basement is really warm, 1st floor is about 68 and the 2nd floor/bedroom floors stays around 60. I will supplement my home with the oil furnace on the sub zero days and set it at 63 on regular winter nights when I choke the stove down. I cut and split my own wood, oak, locust, maple, etc. great video and it’s taken me 21 years since this house was built to get it down to a science like you.

Difficult question to answer. Good show brother 👍 keep cuttin'!

Great information to pass on to the new comers! I know my house has required 3 cords per winter on average, so I try to keep 5-6 cords on hand each year! This way I know if it is a relatively mild year next year will be a little less stress, if it is a hard winter, I am still good! So on an average ideal, you should have squirreled away 2 years worth of firewood if this is your primary heating solution! And another thought/ benefit of a wood stove is even during a power outage/disaster situation you not only have a means of heating, but cooking and water purification! Stoves rock!

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Hello from the Netherlands, I burn roughly 2 cords of mostly softwood a winter in a 1001 square foot house.

NE Kansas here. We have the same Buck Stove (but I need to replace the blower), but a very old house. We go through 5-5 1/2 cords each year. I have about nine cords on site when I’m full up.

Here in NC I burn between 1 and 2 cords per year. It depends on your climate, number of days you need to run the stove, how cold it gets, how big your house is, how big your stove is, what kind of wood you have, how dry it is, and I'm sure many other factors.

We burn 3 to 3.5 full cord each year in our wood stove in cleveland Ohio. All hard woods mostly oak. Some maple snd hickory.

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We have used a Fisher Grandpa Bear wood stove in our full basement for 46 years as our primary heat source, although we do have electric heat installed as well, which we turn on when we may be gone for a few days. Of course, the heat from the wood stove does rise up the stairway to the upper floor, but not as much as we thought it would. I did install a Tjernlund Level to Level Aireshare several years ago, which we allow to run almost continually in the cold months. I would still like to get a little more of that nice wood heat upstairs if possible. Do you, or other subscribers have any suggestions?

If I could get all ash that's what I'd get. For me, best burning wood. I live in the UK probably don't use as much as you guys in the US. I do live on a narrow boat though on the canal, it can get very cold.

If you heat 100% with wood stoves the basement location is poor. Most heat goes into the foundation and earth ( unless the foundation is well insulated....usually not ). Wood stoves are space heaters where people spend their time. Nice video BUTT you have a central furnace "set at comfort " ? The you don't need more firewood. We heat 99% with 2 wood stoves, no central furnace for decades now with EPA non cat stoves in Downeast Maine self harvested from our woodlot.

In my opinion you can't have to much firewood 😊

*I sell firewood and a lot of it. I would say if it’s your main heat source. 5 cords is a good baseline. I sell a cord for $250 delivered in my area. $100 a face cord and $60 if you come load your own pickup truck. No one is bringing a cord in a pickup truck bed.* #WorldsOkayestFarmer

So, a Cord is approx. 3.6 cubic meters. That sums up pretty Well to what we need here on Finland(btw, I've vusited Finland-bar in PA). I have around three cords for The coming winter and that IS barely enough. Central heating, in a basement. No dire need of seasoning. Total Area 6000 square feet or so.

How much does 1 tote full of dry wood weigh?

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Kinda hard to think about firewood at the moment, it was 90° today here in Little Rock. I'm ready for cooler weather, no doubt about it! What kind of winter we have depends on what Mother Nature does, but typically I would say we burn about 1 to 2 cords here. Gross estimate. 🪵🪵🪵🪵 Thanks for sharing, Chad! Great information to know!