Houston barely has a heating season, and most firewood sold here goes to fire pits, pizza ovens and smokers rather than to heating a house. Cooking wood is often the better search term locally.
Seasoned red oak, post oak, mesquite, hickory, pecan and live oak, priced by fraction of a cord with delivery calculated at checkout. Half cord red oak $265 delivered, half cord post oak $280.
Publishes full, half and quarter cord prices by species, with mixed oak at $525 a cord and post oak at $550. Sells cut length specific products, 12 inch stove wood and 6 to 8 inch pizza oven wood, at the same price as the standard cord.
States its wood is air dried for 6 to 12 months to below 20 percent moisture, which is the figure that matters and one few yards publish. Covers Harris, Fort Bend, Montgomery and Brazoria counties. Prices quoted on request.
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 Houston 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 Houston. 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 Houston, TX 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.
Gulf Coast humidity slows air drying considerably. Kiln dried wood holds its moisture content better in storage here.
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 under 100 days, a household using wood as its main heat source in this climate typically burns under one cord a winter. Occasional evening fires use far less.