Winters in Colorado Springs are long enough that firewood is a primary heat source for many households rather than an occasional fire. Order early: local yards sell out of seasoned hardwood well before January.
Prices the softwood to hardwood ladder explicitly, pine at $260 a cord up to ash and maple at $450, cut to about 16 inches. Notably candid that seasoning is not guaranteed at delivery and varies, which is worth asking any yard about.
Publishes yard hours and payment methods but no units, species or prices, so establish what you are buying on the call. Yard is east of Colorado Springs on Judge Orr Road.
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 Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs, CO is quoted per delivery, but one of the yards we have verified here publishes a price list, 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.
El Paso County issues seasonal burn restrictions during high fire danger. Pine and fir are the local staple, which burn faster than hardwood.
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 200 days, a household using wood as its main heat source in this climate typically burns four to six cords a winter. Occasional evening fires use far less.