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Delaware Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

Delaware sells a firewood cutting permit for downed wood on its state forests, and the whole state sits inside a spotted lanternfly quarantine that names firewood of any species as a regulated article.

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Office selling permits
national forest and BLM
On the office page
Price per cord
set district by district
Quarantine
Bringing wood in
Delaware Dept of Agriculture
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Pest named
spotted lanternfly
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in Delaware

One office in Delaware sells a personal use firewood permit. Each office posts its own price on its permit page.

Delaware has no national forest and no BLM field office, so the state forests run by the Delaware Forest Service are the only public land where a person can buy a firewood cutting permit. The same regulation puts the camping firewood rules in writing.

Delaware State Forests

Permit on request

Delaware Forest Service

Price
$100
Wood you may cut
only downed wood may be cut
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
from State Forest staff
There is a fee of $100 for firewood permits, which allows the holder to cut for three days within areas designated and posted by State Forest staff.
402 State Forest Regulations, Delaware Department of Agriculture Forest Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

Permits are handed out first come first served and only when staff decide wood is available.

Firewood permits are required to harvest firewood on State Forest lands and are issued at the discretion of the State Forest staff.
Delaware State Forests. Read it at the source

Nothing standing may be dropped, and the wood cannot be resold.

No trees are to be felled; only downed wood may be cut. Wood is not for resale.
Delaware State Forests. Read it at the source

Firewood cutting is one of the uses the forest service permits alongside hunting and timber harvesting, and it can be limited when uses conflict.

The DFS reserves the right to limit or deny permits during times of conflicting use.
Delaware State Forests. Read it at the source

Cutting anything alive anywhere on a state forest needs written permission from the forest officer in charge.

No living trees, shrubs, or other vegetation may be cut, felled, uprooted, removed, or otherwise injured or destroyed, unless written permission has first been obtained from the forest officer in charge.
Delaware State Forests. Read it at the source

Campers who need more wood may gather it locally from what is already down.

If more firewood is needed, it may be gathered locally from dead and downed trees.
Delaware State Forests. Read it at the source
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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Delaware?

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

Quarantine

Delaware restricts moving firewood into or within the state.

All of Delaware is inside the spotted lanternfly quarantine, and firewood of any species is one of the regulated articles it names. Residents are asked to run a compliance checklist before moving one. Separately, the state forest camping rules do not let campers bring their own firewood in at all.

Agency
Delaware Department of Agriculture
Certified or treated wood
The rule does not turn on a certificate
Pests named
spotted lanternfly
The Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine now includes the entire state of Delaware.
Spotted Lanternfly Quarantine, Delaware Department of Agriculture, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

Firewood of any species is listed among the regulated articles.

Firewood of any species
Delaware Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

Residents are asked to inspect regulated articles against a checklist before moving them.

Residents should complete a residential compliance checklist indicating that you inspected that no living life stage of spotted lanternfly is present on regulated articles before moving them.
Delaware Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

At the state forests the forest service sells wood on site and does not allow campers to bring their own, a rule that lives in the Delaware Forest Service's own state forest regulations rather than on the quarantine page.

Firewood can be purchased for a $5.00 fee onsite and no outside firewood is permitted.
Delaware Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

The insect named in the Delaware rule is spotted lanternfly. 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 Delaware says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. Pennsylvania$5 to $20
  2. New Jersey$25

Delaware 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 402 State Forest Regulations, Delaware Department of Agriculture Forest Service 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.