Seattle 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 hardwood, conifer and a mix separately, at $399, $339 and $369 a full cord, and states the volume of each unit in cubic feet. Standard 16 inch cut with 14 to 19 inch on request. Serves King, Snohomish, Skagit and Whatcom counties.
Kiln dried alder, conifer and maple at $700, $675 and $825 a cord, with green also offered. Cut to 15.5 inches. The premium over air dried yards in the same metro is a clear illustration of what kiln drying costs.
Publishes its delivery range but not its wood prices. Sells maple, alder, birch, hardwood and conifer by the cord and half cord, offers cuts from 12 to 22 inches, and labels stock as seasoned, semi dry or green.
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 Seattle 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 Seattle. 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 Seattle, WA 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.
Puget Sound Clean Air Agency calls burn bans on stagnant winter days, and uncertified wood stoves are restricted during them.
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 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.