Salt Lake City 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.
Oak, apple, cherry, hickory, pecan and mesquite from a quarter cord to two cords, with stacking and yard pickup offered. Covers Davis, Utah, Salt Lake, Tooele, Summit and Weber counties. Prices quoted on request.
Sells by truck bed load as well as by the cord, so ask for the cubic feet before comparing. Describes its wood as standing dead timber that dried naturally rather than as kiln dried or yard seasoned.
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 Salt Lake City 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 Salt Lake City 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.
Firewood in Salt Lake City, UT is quoted per delivery rather than from a published price list, so any specific figure you see online is a guess. Call three yards within your delivery radius, ask each for a full cord price delivered, and ask what species and how long it has been split. Run the quotes through our cord calculator to compare them on the same basis.
Wasatch Front winter inversions trigger mandatory no-burn days, and Utah restricts solid fuel burning on those days for homes with an alternative heat source.
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.