Firewood & Cord Calculator
Measure a stack and learn exactly what you have: full cords, face cords, the heat locked in each kind of wood, and how that stacks up against a heating season where you live.
Measure the stack
Set your place for your heating-season length.
Cords, face cords, and seasoning
A full cord is a stack four feet high, eight feet long, and four feet deep, a hundred and twenty-eight cubic feet of wood and air. A face cord (or rick) is the same four by eight face but only as deep as the logs are long, so sixteen-inch logs make a face cord that is a third of a full cord. Heat depends on the wood: dense hardwoods like oak and sugar maple carry far more energy than pine or poplar. Whatever you burn, season it six months to a year, split and off the ground, so it dries below twenty percent moisture and burns clean.
Heat values are typical averages and vary with species, density, and moisture. A planning estimate, not a fuel guarantee.