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New Jersey Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

New Jersey sets a homeowners firewood permit price per cord in its State Park Service rules, and the state agriculture department has put the whole state under a spotted lanternfly quarantine in which firewood of any species is a regulated article.

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Office selling permits
state land
$25
Price per cord
1 priced by the cord
Quarantine
Bringing wood in
New Jersey Dept of Agriculture
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Pest named
spotted lanternfly
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in New Jersey

One office in New Jersey sells a personal use firewood permit. A cord runs $25 depending on which office you buy from.

New Jersey has no national forest and no BLM field office, so the only public land firewood permit found is the state one. The State Park Service's own camping policy says firewood is not provided at camping facilities and can be bought at some areas, and the camping sheets tell campers to pick firewood up at the park office.

New Jersey State Park Service lands

Permit on request

New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection

Price
$25/cord
Cutting season
Sold on request
Homeowners Firewood/Permit $25.00/cord
N.J.A.C. 7:2 State Park Service Code, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

The State Park Service sets the homeowners firewood permit price by the cord in its own fee rule.

Homeowners Firewood/Permit $25.00/cord
New Jersey State Park Service lands. Read it at the source

Removing any plant or natural resource from State Park Service land requires the superintendent's permission first.

A person shall not abuse, mutilate, injure, destroy, move or remove any plant or animal or natural resource on lands and water under the jurisdiction or control of the State Park Service without having first obtained the permission of the Superintendent or designee.
New Jersey State Park Service lands. Read it at the source

A permit is a document the State Park Service approves for a specific activity.

"Permit" means a properly executed document approved by the State Park Service authorizing a specific activity including, but not limited to, a special use permit and camping permit.
New Jersey State Park Service lands. Read it at the source

The same fee rule also prices firewood sold by the rack at a park, which is one twenty fourth of a cord.

Firewood $6.00/rack (equals 1/24 cord)
New Jersey State Park Service lands. Read it at the source
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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into New Jersey?

New Jersey 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 Jersey Department of Agriculture, and it sits below in its own words.

Quarantine

New Jersey restricts moving firewood into or within the state.

Every New Jersey county sits inside the state's spotted lanternfly quarantine, and the agriculture department lists firewood of any species among the regulated articles. The permit requirement the quarantine imposes is written for businesses and organizations moving regulated articles for work.

Agency
New Jersey Department of Agriculture
Certified or treated wood
The rule does not turn on a certificate
Pests named
spotted lanternfly
To stop the spread of spotted lanternfly (SLF), the New Jersey Department of Agriculture (NJDA) has issued a quarantine for all of New Jersey.
Homeowner Resources, New Jersey Department of Agriculture Division of Plant Industry, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

The quarantine covers the entire state, not a set of counties.

All New Jersey counties are now quarantined
New Jersey Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

Firewood of any species is one of the regulated articles the quarantine names.

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

The permit the quarantine requires applies to businesses and organizations moving regulated articles in the course of their work.

This quarantine requires all businesses and organizations moving within or from the quarantine zone in the course of their work to obtain permits issued by NJDA.
New Jersey Department of Agriculture. Read it at the source

The insect named in the New Jersey 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 New Jersey says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. Pennsylvania$5 to $20
  2. New York$10

New Jersey 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 N.J.A.C. 7:2 State Park Service Code, New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection 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.