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Hawaii Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

Hawaii has no national forests, so gathering wood on public land runs through a free state forest reserve collection permit, and a state quarantine controls moving ohia wood and soil off Hawaii Island.

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Offices selling permits
state land
On the office page
Price per cord
set district by district
Quarantine
Bringing wood in
Hawaii Dept of Agriculture
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Pests named
rapid ohia death, ohia wilt
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in Hawaii

2 offices in Hawaii sell a personal use firewood permit. Each office posts its own price on its permit page. 1 of them give the permit away.

There are no national forests and no BLM land in Hawaii, so every public land firewood question here runs through the state forest reserve system.

Forest reserve firewood on the state forest products price list shows the 2018 season season, the most recent that office has posted. A new price and new dates go up on the same page.

State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit

Permit on request

Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife

Price
free of charge
Household limit
No more than one permit within a seven-day period may be issued to the same person or persons, group, organization, or association listed on the permit for collecting any of the same forest products.
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
online, in person at any DOFAW District office
Gathering of non-listed species or common materials from a State Forest Reserve, requested in quantities that are determined by DLNR as representing personal use, is regulated through issuance of a Collection Permit, free of charge.
Forest Reserve System Collection Permit, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

Personal use gathering needs a collecting permit naming the area.

Persons wishing to collect forest products for personal use and at no charge shall obtain a collecting permit authorizing the collection in a specific area.
State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit. Read it at the source

The permit names the dates, the products, the quantities and the area.

Collecting permits shall specify: (1) The date or dates of collection; (2) The quantities and products to be collected; (3) The areas of collection
State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit. Read it at the source

Nothing collected on the permit may be sold.

Permits shall not be issued for collecting products for sale.
State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit. Read it at the source

One permit per seven days for the same product.

§13-104-21 (f) No more than one permit within a seven-day period may be issued to the same person or persons, group, organization, or association listed on the permit for collecting any of the same forest products.
State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit. Read it at the source

Ohia collection is suspended statewide because of rapid ohia death.

The Division of Forestry and Wildlife is not issuing permits for collection of ʻōhiʻa in state forest reserves out of an abundance of caution.
State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit. Read it at the source

Apply at a district office or through the online map.

You can apply for a permit at any DOFAW District office or online .
State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit. Read it at the source

State Forest Reserve System Collection Permit firewood permit page

Forest reserve firewood on the state forest products price list

2018 season

Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, Division of Forestry and Wildlife

Price
$10 per cubic yard, $10 minimum
Minimum
$10 minimum
Wood you may cut
unprocessed dead or down non-native species
Where to buy
in person at any DOFAW District office

These are the office’s 2018 season details, the most recent it has posted. The price and the dates for a new season go up on the same page.

Unprocessed dead or down non-native species: $10.00 per cubic yard, $10.00 minimum.
Forest Products Price List for Resources Sold from Lands Managed By the State of Hawaii, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

Split and bagged wood is priced by the bucket instead.

Processed non-native species: $10.00 per Five (5) gallon Bucket/Bag
Forest reserve firewood on the state forest products price list. Read it at the source

A pickup bed is roughly one to two cubic yards.

(Note: pickup truck beds are assumed to hold approximate! y 1-2 cubic yards depending on size).
Forest reserve firewood on the state forest products price list. Read it at the source

The state can auction wood or agree a different price.

DLNR retains the right to a) auction forest products and b) to set forth forest products purchase agreements that include prices that may deviate from this price list.
Forest reserve firewood on the state forest products price list. Read it at the source
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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Hawaii?

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

Quarantine

Hawaii restricts moving firewood into or within the state.

A permanent state quarantine restricts moving ohia plants, ohia wood and soil off Hawaii Island, and doing so needs inspection and a Plant Quarantine Branch permit. The wood covered includes untreated wood and logs, so firewood is squarely in it.

Agency
Hawaii Department of Agriculture
Pests named
rapid ohia death, ohia wilt, Ceratocystis fimbriata
Movement of ohia material and soil from Hawaii Island requires inspection and a permit issued by the Plant Quarantine Branch of the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA).
Ohia Quarantine Rules Become Permanent, Hawaii Department of Agriculture, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

The quarantine covers ohia wood, logs, mulch and greenwaste as well as the living plant.

Ohia plant parts including: flowers, leaves, seeds, stems, twigs, cuttings, untreated wood, logs, mulch greenwaste and frass (sawdust from boring insects, such as beetles)
Hawaii Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

Soil from Hawaii Island is covered too.

The permanent rules restrict the movement of the following from Hawaii Island:
Hawaii Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

Some material has to be tested or held before it can move.

Testing and quarantine of some items may be required.
Hawaii Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

The state department of agriculture keeps a quarantine rule in force for rapid ohia death.

Regulatory Status: Hawaii State Department of Agriculture has a quarantine rule in effect. The USDA implemented the Myrtaceae Rule that restricts the movement of myrtle plants from entering Hawaii through foreign ports.
Hawaii Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

The insects and diseases named in the Hawaii rule are rapid ohia death, ohia wilt and Ceratocystis fimbriata. 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

Hawaii 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 Forest Reserve System Collection Permit, Division of Forestry and Wildlife, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources 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.