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Kansas Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

The Cimarron National Grassland sells a personal use firewood permit over the counter, and the guidance that applies to firewood moving through Kansas is the federal one: get your wood close to where you will burn it.

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Office selling permits
national forest and BLM
On the office page
Price per cord
set district by district
Advisory
Bringing wood in
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
State rule
Where the rule lives
How To Stop Invasive Pests, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in Kansas

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

The Cimarron National Grassland is the only national forest system land in Kansas, and its firewood permit is sold in person only. The Forest Service publishes no price for it and asks people to call the office, because the cost per cord varies by firewood area.

Cimarron National Grassland

Permit on request

USDA Forest Service

Price
On the office page
Wood you may cut
standing dead trees and dead trees on the ground
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
in person at the district office
The Forest Service sells permits to cut firewood (also called fuelwood) for personal use.
Firewood Permits, Pike-San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands, USDA Forest Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

Cutting is allowed on the grassland and along Forest Service roads only.

The removal of these trees is allowed within the San Isabel National Forest, the Cimarron National Grassland and along National Forest System Roads (NFSRs) only.
Cimarron National Grassland. Read it at the source

You may pull one vehicle length off a Forest Service road and no further.

Motorized vehicles are allowed to park one vehicle length off an NFSR and are not allowed to drive off road or block traffic.
Cimarron National Grassland. Read it at the source

County roads and state highways crossing the grassland are closed to collecting.

Collection of firewood is prohibited along county roads and state highways that run through National Forest System land.
Cimarron National Grassland. Read it at the source

Stumps have to be cut low.

Cut the stump within 6 inches of the ground.
Cimarron National Grassland. Read it at the source

Stay well back from water.

Do not collect firewood within 100 feet of stream courses, riparian areas, wet areas or bodies of water.
Cimarron National Grassland. Read it at the source

Developed and specially designated areas are off limits.

Do not collect firewood in designated wilderness areas, research natural areas, campgrounds, picnic areas, ski areas or administrative sites.
Cimarron National Grassland. Read it at the source
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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Kansas?

Kansas asks rather than forbids: buy your wood close to the fire you will burn it on. The rule is written by the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, and it sits below in its own words.

Advisory

Kansas has no statewide ban, and asks that you buy firewood where you burn it.

The guidance that applies to firewood in Kansas is the federal one: get your wood close to where you will burn it. The Kansas Department of Agriculture is the office to call before hauling a load a long way.

Agency
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Don't move firewood. Buy or use firewood that's close to your campsite.
How To Stop Invasive Pests, USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

Get your firewood near where you will burn it.

Don't move firewood. Buy or use firewood that's close to your campsite.
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. Read it at the source

Wood is how tree killing insects travel.

Invasive pests can travel in firewood, including tree-killing beetles and leaf-eating insects.
USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. 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 Kansas says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. Colorado$2 to $5
  2. Nebraska$5

Kansas 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 Firewood Permits, Pike-San Isabel National Forests and Cimarron and Comanche National Grasslands, 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.