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Connecticut Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

Connecticut sells a state forest firewood permit by the cord when the Forestry Division has wood to move, and state rules limit moving any hardwood firewood inside the state without a document showing where it came from and where it is going.

1
Office selling permits
state land
$30
Price per cord
1 priced by the cord
Quarantine
Bringing wood in
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
1
Pest named
emerald ash borer
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in Connecticut

One office in Connecticut sells a personal use firewood permit. A cord runs $30 depending on which office you buy from.

The campground sales line comes from the state parks camping page at https://portal.ct.gov/DEEP/State-Parks/Camping/General-Camping-Information---CT-State-Parks-and-Forests, which also heads a section Reminder to CT Campers and Vacationers To Leave Firewood at Home.

Connecticut state forests

Permit on request

Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Price
$30/cord
Minimum
2-cord minimum
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
by email to the Forestry Division, to be added to a list of interested applicants
A firewood permit is $30/cord with a 2-cord minimum.
CT State Lands Firewood Program, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

There is no standing program; wood comes up only when the Forestry Division has some to move.

DEEP does not maintain an active firewood program. However, to assist in meeting the energy demands of the State, at times the Forestry Division has wood available that can be sold to meet the Division's management objectives.
Connecticut state forests. Read it at the source

The wood sits near a dirt road and you may need a truck that can get to it.

The wood is usually within 100 feet of a dirt road. A 4-wheel drive pickup truck may be needed.
Connecticut state forests. Read it at the source

Protective gear is required.

Applicants need to wear Personal Protective Equipment, including chainsaw chaps, hard hat with eye and ear protection, and boots.
Connecticut state forests. Read it at the source
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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Connecticut?

Connecticut has a quarantine on the books, which means untreated firewood from outside the line may not come in. The rule is written by the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, and it sits below in its own words.

Quarantine

Connecticut restricts moving firewood into or within the state.

State rules limit moving any hardwood firewood inside Connecticut, not just ash. Whenever firewood moves, the person moving it has to carry a document giving its origin and destination, and the state publishes a self issued certificate for that.

Agency
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection
Certified or treated wood
The rule does not turn on a certificate
Pests named
emerald ash borer
As part of the state regulations, when transporting firewood within Connecticut, the person moving the firewood must have a document stating the origin and destination of the firewood.
Regulations on Movement of Firewood, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

Some kind of certification is needed every time firewood moves, and the state's self issued certificate covers it.

This can be accomplished through the use of a Self-Issued Firewood Transportation Certificate . The requirement for some type of certification applies whenever firewood is being moved.
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Read it at the source

Crossing a state line is a federal matter, and the federal requirements are close to the state's.

Movement of hardwood firewood into and out of state is more generally governed by USDA APHIS - the federal agency charged with plant and animal health. APHIS's regulations are very similar, however, to the state's regulations in their specific requirements.
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Read it at the source

State campgrounds sell wood at most sites, so there is somewhere to buy it when you arrive.

Firewood is available for sale at most campgrounds with the exception of Devil's Hopyard State Park and Pachaug State Forest (Green Falls and Mount Misery) and is subject to availability.
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection. Read it at the source

The insect named in the Connecticut rule is emerald ash borer. A beetle covers a few hundred yards in a season on its own wings, and several hundred miles in an afternoon in the bed of a pickup, which is the whole reason the rule exists.

A slender metallic green beetle about half an inch long resting on pale cracked tree bark
The emerald ash borer, photographed by USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine. It flies only a short way on its own; a load of untreated firewood carries it as far as the truck goes, which is why more states name it in their firewood rules than any other pest. “Plant Protection and Quarantine (34954841290)”, APHIS.gov, Public domain
Nearby

What a cord costs in the states next door

A permit is only good on the land the office manages, so a cheaper cord across the line still has to obey whatever Connecticut says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. New York$10

Connecticut firewood permit questions

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Firewood permits in other states

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An open pole woodshed in a spruce clearing, one bay filled with stacked cordwood, a hydraulic log splitter in the foreground
An Alaska woodshed in summer with the winter stacked and the splitter still out. A cord is a stack four feet by four feet by eight feet, and that is the unit nearly every permit is priced in. “Alaska woodshed”, Keith Parker, CC BY-SA 2.0

Compiled September 22, 2026 from CT State Lands Firewood Program, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the other agency pages linked beside each quote above. Prices, seasons and quarantine boundaries change, so the agency’s own page is the one to read before you load a truck. Every state is in the national firewood permit guide.