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Georgia Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

Georgia's national forest sells firewood permits online and at district offices for five dollars a cord, two of its districts are giving permits away this year to clear storm damage, and the state has no firewood quarantine on the books.

2
Offices selling permits
national forest and BLM
$5
Price per cord
1 of them free
No rule
Bringing wood in
Georgia Dept of Agriculture
State rule
Where the rule lives
Notice of Intent to Consider the Repeal of Chapter 40-4-25, Georgia Department of Agriculture
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in Georgia

2 offices in Georgia sell a personal use firewood permit. A cord runs $5 depending on which office you buy from. 1 of them give the permit away.

Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest

Permit on request

USDA Forest Service

Price
Minimum charge for personal use fuelwood is $5 per cord with a minimum Permit value of $20.
Minimum
a minimum Permit value of $20
Wood you may cut
dead and down wood
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
online through the Forest Service E-Permit system, in person at a local Forest Service office, participating vendors
Minimum charge for personal use fuelwood is $5.00 per cord with a minimum Permit value of $20.00.
Permits, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, USDA Forest Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

Five dollars a cord, twenty dollars to get out the door.

Minimum charge for personal use fuelwood is $5.00 per cord with a minimum Permit value of $20.00.
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

You can buy the permit online now instead of driving to an office.

Firewood permits for the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest are now available for purchase through a new online E-Permit system.
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

Each district ranger sets the terms, so where you may cut depends on which district you are in.

Below is the policy set by each District Ranger for issuing firewood permits.
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

On the Blue Ridge, Conasauga and Oconee districts there is no standing fuelwood area; the district picks a spot for you.

Permits issued only for dead and down wood in specific areas approved on a case by case basis. No designated fuelwood areas.
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

On the Conasauga district the cutting is along road edges.

Permits issued only for dead and down wood along the edge of forest roads and specific areas approved on a case by case basis.
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

Christmas trees are not sold here at all.

We do not issue permits for Christmas trees.
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest firewood permit page

Blue Ridge and Chattooga River Ranger Districts, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest

2026 season

USDA Forest Service

Price
free
Household limit
up to four cords of firewood
Wood you may cut
dead or down trees and branches
Where to buy
in person at a Forest Service office; not available online
Free-use firewood permits available on two Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest districts
Free-use firewood permits available on two Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest districts, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, USDA Forest Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

The free permits are a storm cleanup measure on two districts, announced in February 2026.

In response to impacts from Storm Fern, which moved through north Georgia on Jan. 24, the USDA Forest Service is authorizing the issuance of free-use firewood permits on the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest’s Blue Ridge and Chattooga River Ranger Districts.
Blue Ridge and Chattooga River Ranger Districts, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

Cut along open roads and in the marked collection areas, and stop at four cords.

The permits authorize the collection of dead or down trees and branches along open Forest Service System roads and other designated firewood collection areas across the Blue Ridge and Chattooga River districts. Permit holders may collect up to four cords of firewood.
Blue Ridge and Chattooga River Ranger Districts, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

The wood is for your own stove, not for resale.

Firewood collected under these permits is for personal use only and may not be resold.
Blue Ridge and Chattooga River Ranger Districts, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

You have to pick this one up in person.

Free-use firewood permits may be obtained at Forest Service offices across the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Permits are not available online.
Blue Ridge and Chattooga River Ranger Districts, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest. Read it at the source

Blue Ridge and Chattooga River Ranger Districts, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest firewood permit page

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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Georgia?

Georgia sets no rule of its own on firewood crossing the line, and the advice that applies is the federal one: buy it where you burn it. The rule is written by the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and it sits below in its own words.

No rule

Georgia has no firewood movement rule on the books right now.

Georgia's only firewood quarantine was the emerald ash borer chapter, and the Department of Agriculture repealed it. The state rules index now lists that chapter as repealed and no remaining plant quarantine chapter regulates firewood.

Agency
Georgia Department of Agriculture
The Department is proposing to repeal Chapter 40-4-25 entitled “Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine” in its entirety.
Notice of Intent to Consider the Repeal of Chapter 40-4-25, Georgia Department of Agriculture, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

The department moved to strike the emerald ash borer quarantine entirely in 2021.

The Department is proposing to repeal Chapter 40-4-25 entitled “Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine” in its entirety.
Georgia Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

The Georgia Secretary of State's rules index now shows that chapter gone, which is how a reader can check it for themselves.

Subject 40-4-25. Repealed
Georgia Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source
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 Georgia says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. Florida$5

Georgia 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 Permits, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, USDA 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.