Columbus 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.
Prices are delivered and stacked rather than dumped, at $289 for a full cord of seasoned hardwood mix cut 16 to 20 inches. Premium hickory or oak half cords run $229. Shorter cuts are a special order.
Sells by piece count rather than by volume, quoting an approximate cord as 400 split pieces of 18 to 22 inches at $335. That is not strictly a cord measurement, so stack and measure on delivery. Seasoned oak, hard maple, locust, cherry, elm and sycamore.
Publishes pickup and delivered prices side by side, a bulk cord at $209 collected against $265 to $295 delivered, which makes the freight visible. Stock is a mix of seasoned, semi seasoned and green, so ask which you are getting.
States its wood is air dried 6 to 12 months to under 20 percent moisture, which is the number that matters. Covers Franklin, Delaware, Licking and Fairfield counties. Publishes neither prices nor a phone number, so contact is through the site.
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 Columbus 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 Columbus 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 Columbus, OH 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.
Ohio is under a statewide emerald ash borer quarantine. Ash firewood is common and cheap here, but it must stay local.
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.