Oklahoma Firewood Rules 2026: What You Can Move

Q: Why does Oklahoma restrict moving firewood?

emerald ash borer. Moved wood is how the beetle reaches new places. "In addition to EAB’s ability to spread on its own, people have also inadvertently spread the pest by moving infested firewood."

Q: Which states have the cheapest firewood permits?

Arizona, $1 to $5. California, $1 to $15. Colorado, $2 to $5. 24 states have a per cord price posted, and the state by state table on the hub page ranks all of them.

Q: Which states restrict moving firewood?

35 of the 50 states have a quarantine or a certified wood rule on the books, and another 13 ask you to buy it where you burn it. The pests behind most of them are emerald ash borer, asian longhorned beetle and spongy moth.

Q: Who sets the firewood rules in Oklahoma?

Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Everything here was read from the agency's own page on September 22, 2026 and each card links its source.

Advisory

Bringing wood in

Oklahoma Dept of Agriculture, Food and Forestry

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Pest named

emerald ash borer

Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Oklahoma?

Oklahoma asks rather than forbids: buy your wood close to the fire you will burn it on. The rule is written by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, and it sits below in its own words.

Advisory

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

Oklahoma has no firewood quarantine in its plant quarantine rules. The state agriculture and forestry department asks people to burn firewood where they buy it, because emerald ash borer has been carried into new counties in moved wood.

Agency: Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry
Certified or treated wood: The rule does not turn on a certificate
Pests named: emerald ash borer

This is done through chemical and biological controls as well as by continuing to urge people to NOT MOVE FIREWOOD. Buy it where you burn it.

Emerald Ash Borer Confirmed in Three Oklahoma Counties, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

The state asks people not to move firewood and to burn it where they buy it.

This is done through chemical and biological controls as well as by continuing to urge people to NOT MOVE FIREWOOD. Buy it where you burn it.

Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Read it at the source

Moved wood is how the beetle reaches new places.

In addition to EAB’s ability to spread on its own, people have also inadvertently spread the pest by moving infested firewood.

Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Read it at the source

The beetle is confirmed in southern Oklahoma and was first found in the northeast corner in 2016.

The destructive Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is present in McCurtain, Choctaw, and Carter Counties in southern Oklahoma as confirmed by USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS).

Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry. Read it at the source

The insect named in the Oklahoma rule is emerald ash borer. 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 near you

A permit is only good on the land the office manages, so a cheaper cord across the line still has to obey whatever Oklahoma says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

Colorado$2 to $5
New Mexico$2 to $20
Texas$20

Oklahoma firewood permit questions

Can you bring firewood into Oklahoma?

Oklahoma has no firewood quarantine in its plant quarantine rules. The state agriculture and forestry department asks people to burn firewood where they buy it, because emerald ash borer has been carried into new counties in moved wood. Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry: "This is done through chemical and biological controls as well as by continuing to urge people to NOT MOVE FIREWOOD. Buy it where you burn it."

Why does Oklahoma restrict moving firewood?

Which states have the cheapest firewood permits?

Which states restrict moving firewood?

Who sets the firewood rules in Oklahoma?

Firewood permits in other states

Oklahoma heating oil and propane pricesWhat a gallon costs this winter, and how that compares with a cord.First snow in OklahomaWhen the first measurable snow usually falls, city by city.Oklahoma Christmas tree permitsThe other permit the same ranger district sells each winter.Firewood permits by stateEvery price by the cord in one table, with the rule on moving wood.

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 Emerald Ash Borer Confirmed in Three Oklahoma Counties, Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food and Forestry 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.