Phoenix 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.
Prices published per cubic foot bracket rather than by cord name, with 128 cu ft as the full cord. Mesquite $679 and oak $799 per 128 cu ft, mixed grades from $399.
Publishes a full price grid by species and states a 16 inch cut length. Full cords run from $500 for mulberry to $1,000 for pecan. Delivers across Maricopa County.
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 Phoenix 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 Phoenix 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 Phoenix, AZ 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.
Maricopa County issues no-burn days during winter air quality alerts. Check the county advisory before lighting a wood fire.
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 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.