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New Hampshire Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

The White Mountain National Forest sells a personal use permit for dead and down wood by the cord, and state law bars moving wood into or within New Hampshire when it may be carrying a declared forest pest.

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Office selling permits
national forest and BLM
$10
Price per cord
1 priced by the cord
Quarantine
Bringing wood in
New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands
State rule
Where the rule lives
Section 227-K:17 Prohibitions, New Hampshire General Court
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in New Hampshire

One office in New Hampshire sells a personal use firewood permit. A cord runs $10 depending on which office you buy from.

The two administrative rule quotes come from Chapter Res 5500, Forest Health, the rules of the Division of Forests and Lands, published at https://gc.nh.gov/rules/state_agencies/res5200-5900.html. The state park rules, Res 7300 and Res 7400, say nothing about firewood.

White Mountain National Forest

Permit on request

USDA Forest Service

Price
$20 for 2 cords and $10 for each additional cord up to 5 maximum
Minimum
two cords
Household limit
as few as two cords or as many as five cords per calendar year
Wood you may cut
dead and down wood
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
online, in person at one of our district offices
Permits for dead and down wood are issued for personal use for as few as two cords or as many as five cords per calendar year. The cost is $20 for 2 cords and $10 for each additional cord up to 5 maximum.
Permits, White Mountain National Forest, USDA Forest Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

The permit covers most of the forest but leaves out several kinds of ground.

The personal use firewood permit covers most of the White Mountain National Forest, excluding active timber sales, developed recreation areas, designated Wilderness, and the Bartlett and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forests.
White Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

Bring a driver's license and the registration for the vehicle you will haul the wood in.

At the time of purchase please provide a valid driver's license and vehicle registration for the vehicle that will be used to collect the firewood.
White Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

Permits can be bought online or at a district office, with card, cash or check at the office.

Firewood permits may be purchased online or at one of our district offices. Online permits can be purchased with a credit card. Permits at district offices can be purchased with cash, credit card or check made out to the "US Forest Service."
White Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

White Mountain National Forest firewood permit page

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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into New Hampshire?

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

Quarantine

New Hampshire restricts moving firewood into or within the state.

New Hampshire forest health law forbids moving wood into the state, or around inside it, when you know or have reason to think it may be carrying a forest pest the state has declared dangerous. The division's forest health rules set up quarantines and define treated firewood as wood heated to 71 degrees Celsius for 75 minutes or kiln dried.

Agency
New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands
Selling, offering for sale, giving away, moving or shipping any tree, timber, log, wood, pole, underwood, or bark, or the products thereof into this state, or within this state, knowing or having reason to believe that they may be harboring a forest pest declared as a dangerous insect or disease, or have been exposed to any such pest.
Section 227-K:17 Prohibitions, New Hampshire General Court, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

The state's rules count firewood as treated only when it has been kiln dried or heated to a set temperature for a set time.

"Untreated wood" means any firewood having not been kiln dried or heated to 71 degrees Celsius for 75 minutes or treated with other approved methods as certified by the United States Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service PPQ.
New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands. Read it at the source

The division can declare a quarantine when a dangerous insect or disease threatens the state's forests, and the declaration has to name the pest, the area and what may not be moved.

When the director following consultation pursuant to RSA 227-K:2, III, determines that a dangerous insect or disease threatens any forest of the state, the director shall designate a quarantine.
New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands. 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 New Hampshire says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. Vermont$10

New Hampshire 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, White Mountain 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.