Best Firewoods

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Best Firewoods

When in a survival situation we are not allways as fortunate as to be able to pick our location and which wood we would like to burn to generate heat. Listed below is information on the amount of heat given off when different woods are burned. The internationally recognised unit for this is the BTU (British thermal unit), It is approximately the amount of energy needed to heat one pound of water one degree Fahrenheit. The unit used below it the MBTU and the cord: MBTU is 1,000 BTU's and a cord of wood 4 feet high by 4 feet wide by eight feet long (4' x 4' x 8') and has a volume of 128 cubic feet. in General the denser the wood the more it weighs and the more heat it gives off.

Best Firewoods sorted by BTU content:
Common Name:	Species Name:	Lb/ cord	MBTU's/ cord
Osage Orange (Hedge) Hickory, Shagbark Hop Hornbeam (Ironwood) Beech, Blue (Ironwood) Birch, Black Locust, Black Hickory, Bitternut Locust, Honey Apple Mulberry Oak, White Beech, European Maple, Sugar Oak, Red Ash, White Birch, Yellow Juniper, Rocky Mtn Elm, Red Coffeetree, Kentucky Hackberry Tamarack Birch, Gray Birch, Paper (White) Walnut, Black Cherry Ash, Green Cherry, Black Elm, American Elm, White Elm, Russian (Siberian) Sycamore Ash, Black Maple, Red Fir, Douglas Boxelder Alder, Red Pine, Jack Pine, Norway Pine, Red Pine, Pitch Catalpa Hemlock Spruce, Black Pine, Ponderosa Aspen, American Walnut, White (Butternut) Spruce Willow Fir, Balsam Pine, White Pine, Eastern (Western) Fir, Concolor (White) Basswood (Linden) Buckeye, Ohio Cottonwood Cedar, White	Maclura pomifera Carya ovata Ostrya virginiana Carpinus caroliniana Betula lenta Robinia pseudoacacia Carya cordiformis Gleditsia triacanthos Malus domestica Morus rubra Quercus alba Fagus sylvatica Acer saccharum Quercus rubra Fraxinus americana Betula alleghaniensis Juniperus scopulorum Ulmus rubra Gymnocladus dioicus Celtis occidentalis Larix laricina Betula populifolia Betula papyrifera Juglans nigra Prunus Fraxinus pennsylvanica Prunus serotina Ulmus americana Ulmus laevis Ulmus laevis Platanus Fraxinus nigra Acer rubrum Pseudotsuga Acer negundo Alnus rubra Pinus banksiana Pinus resinosa Pinus resinosa Pinus rigida Catalpa speciosa Pinaceae tsuga Picea mariana Pinus ponderosa Populus tremuloides Juglans cinerea Picea Salix Abies balsamea Pinus strobus Pinus strobus Abies concolor Tilia Aesculus glabra Populus Thuja occidentalis	4,728 4,327 4,267 3,890 3,890 3,890 3,832 3,832 4,100 3,712 4,012 3,757 3,757 3,757 3,689 3,689 3,150 3,112 3.112 3,247 3,247 3,179 3,179 3,192 3,120 2,880 2,880 3,052 3,052 3,052 2,808 2,992 2,924 2,900 2,797 2,710 2,669 2,669 2,669 2,669 2,360 2,482 2,482 2,380 2,290 2,100 2,100 2,100 2,236 2,236 2,236 2,104 2,108 1,984 2,108 1,913	32.9 27.7 27.3 26.8 26.8 26.8 26.7 26.7 26.5 25.8 25.7 24 24 24 23.6 23.6 21.8 21.6 21.6 20.8 20.8 20.3 20.3 20.2 20 19.9 19.9 19.5 19.5 19.5 19.5 19.1 18.7 18.1 17.9 17.2 17.1 17.1 17.4 17.1 16.4 15.9 15.9 15.2 14.7 14.5 14.5 14.5 14.3 14.3 14.3 14.1 13.8 13.8 13.5 12.2

32.9 27.7 27.3 26.8 26.8 26.8 26.7 26.7 26.5 25.8 25.7 24 24 24 23.6 23.6 21.8 21.6 21.6 20.8 20.8 20.3 20.3 20.2 20 19.9 19.9 19.5 19.5 19.5 19.5 19.1 18.7 18.1 17.9 17.2 17.1 17.1 17.4 17.1 16.4 15.9 15.9 15.2 14.7 14.5 14.5 14.5 14.3 14.3 14.3 14.1 13.8 13.8 13.5 12.2

32.9
27.7
27.3
26.8
26.8
26.8
26.7
26.7
26.5
25.8
25.7
24
24
24
23.6
23.6
21.8
21.6
21.6
20.8
20.8
20.3
20.3
20.2
20
19.9
19.9
19.5
19.5
19.5
19.5
19.1
18.7
18.1
17.9
17.2
17.1
17.1
17.4
17.1
16.4
15.9
15.9
15.2
14.7
14.5
14.5
14.5
14.3
14.3
14.3
14.1
13.8
13.8
13.5
12.2