Firewood in Charlotte is mostly a comfort purchase rather than a heating necessity. One or two cords covers a typical winter of evening fires.
Kiln dried red oak, white oak and ash, with a stated moisture content of 8 to 10 percent. Publishes a face cord at $520 and a half face cord at $300, quoting the stack dimensions with each. Cut length not stated.
Publishes a full price grid by species and unit, and separately for dumped against stacked delivery. Mixed hardwood runs $475 a cord dumped and $575 stacked. States a cut length of 16 to 18 inches, which most yards do not.
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 Charlotte 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.
Humidity works against you in Charlotte. Wood that would reach burnable moisture in six months in a dry climate can take a full year here, and a stack pressed against a fence or covered to the ground will not get there at all.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 Charlotte, NC is quoted per delivery, but 2 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.
North Carolina quarantines several counties for emerald ash borer. Moving hardwood firewood across county lines can be restricted.
Longer than the national rule of thumb. Humidity in this region slows air drying, so allow a full year for most hardwood split and stacked with airflow, and closer to two years for dense oak. A moisture meter reading under 20 percent is the only reliable test.
With a heating season of roughly 120 days, a household using wood as its main heat source in this climate typically burns one to two cords a winter. Occasional evening fires use far less.