Boise has a real heating season without the extremes of the northern tier. Most households here burn between two and four cords a winter if wood is their main heat.
Publishes pickup and delivered prices side by side, hardwood mix at $420 and $470 a cord, pine mix at $320 and $370, which makes the delivery cost explicit. Cut around 16 inches. Showed seasoned wood sold out when we checked.
One price, $300 a cord, for a stated 30 percent softwood and 70 percent hardwood mix seasoned one year. Disclosing the mix ratio is unusual and makes the price straightforward to compare. Serves Nampa, Caldwell, Meridian, Star, Middleton, Eagle and Boise.
States cord fractions in cubic feet, from an eighth at 16 cu ft to a full cord at 128, which is the clearest way to sell them. Lists oak from $200, mixed hardwood from $150, maple and cherry from $300, and a seasoned softwood mix at the bottom of the range.
Every yard here was checked on the date shown, and what it says about delivery and prices is what its own site publishes. Some are based in surrounding towns rather than Boise itself, which is normal: firewood is delivered on a radius of 20 to 30 miles, and the yards nearest the wood are rarely in the city centre. Note that yards quote in different units, some by the full cord and some by the face cord or rick, so get the cut length and the delivered total to your address before comparing two numbers.
Conditions in Boise favour air drying, but only for a stack built to dry. Wood sitting on soil under a full tarp stays wet regardless of the climate.Split it, stack it single row off the ground, leave the sides open to the wind and cover the top only. Check it with a moisture meter on a freshly split face: under 20 percent is ready.
Once you have two or three numbers, put them through thefirewood cost calculator. It converts face cord and half cord quotes to a price per full cord and adjusts for species, which is the only way to tell whether the cheap quote is genuinely cheap or just smaller.
For what moves the number in the first place, and what counts as a fair quote, see the guide to theaverage cost of a cord of wood.
Most firewood in Boise, ID is quoted per delivery, but 3 of the yards we have verified here publish price lists, linked above. Use that as a reference point, then call two more yards within your delivery radius for a full cord delivered to your address. Ask what species and how long it has been split, and compare the quotes on the same basis with our cord calculator.
Idaho sells personal use firewood permits for national forest land, which is why local cord prices run below the western average.
Six months to a year for most species, split and stacked off the ground with airflow on all sides and cover on the top only. Dense oak takes closer to two years. Drier air in this region helps, but only if the stack is single row and off the ground.
With a heating season of roughly 150 days, a household using wood as its main heat source in this climate typically burns two to four cords a winter. Occasional evening fires use far less.