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Vermont Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

The Green Mountain National Forest sells the only personal firewood cutting permit in Vermont because the state does not offer one on state land, and Vermont's firewood rule bars untreated firewood from entering the state at all.

1
Office selling permits
national forest and BLM
$10
Price per cord
1 priced by the cord
Quarantine
Bringing wood in
Vermont Dept of Forests, Parks and Recreation
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Pests named
Asian longhorned beetle, oak wilt
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in Vermont

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

Vermont sells no firewood permit on its own land: "Due to the limited availability of safe access and ready projects, FPR does not offer permits to harvest firewood off of state land." (Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation).

Green Mountain National Forest

Permit on request

USDA Forest Service

Price
$10 per cord
Minimum
A minimum charge of $20 (2 cords)
Household limit
A maximum volume of 10 cords
Wood you may cut
dead-and-down trees only
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
USDA E-Permits online, in person at the nearest Ranger Station
Firewood permits are issued for: A minimum charge of $20 (2 cords*) at $10 per cord. A maximum volume of 10 cords.
Firewood, Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, USDA Forest Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

Dead and down wood only, with standing dead off limits and live trees needing written permission.

Firewood cutting is permitted for dead-and-down trees only. No standing-dead trees are to be harvested, and no live trees may be cut without written permission.
Green Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

The Manchester Ranger District is the one place marked live trees may be taken, in a set window along one road.

Manchester Ranger District Only: Designated standing live trees may be harvested on National Forest Land within 30 feet of Forest Road 71 (Airport Rd.) in the Towns of Stratton and Somerset, from August 16th through May 14th.
Green Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

Cutting follows open roads on the motor vehicle use map and stops 150 feet from the road edge.

Firewood may only be taken within 150 feet of the edge of the open road. The use of tractors, rubber-tire skidders, ATVs, and similar vehicles is not allowed.
Green Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

Keep 100 feet back from water.

Do not cut trees within 100 feet of wetlands, beaver ponds, lakes, streams, or rivers.
Green Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

A standing forest order bans firewood from outside Vermont on the Green Mountain National Forest unless it is kiln dried and labelled.

Any firewood of any species originating from any location outside the State of Vermont EXCEPT kiln-dried, packaged firewood clearly marked with the producer's name and address and labeled as "Kiln Dried" and/or USDA Certified are exempt from the provisions of this order.
Green Mountain National Forest. Read it at the source

Green Mountain National Forest firewood permit page

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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Vermont?

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

Quarantine

Vermont restricts moving firewood into or within the state.

A rule in effect since 2016 bans untreated firewood from being brought into Vermont at all. Treated wood may enter only if it was heat treated at a certified facility and travels with certification, and Vermont State Parks and State Forests will not accept anything less.

Agency
Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation
Certified or treated wood
Heat treated and certified wood may come in
Pests named
Asian longhorned beetle, oak wilt
The purpose of this rule is to protect forest health by preventing the long-distance movement of wood-borne invasive forest pests, such as Asian longhorned beetle and oak wilt, into Vermont.
Firewood Quarantine, Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

The import ban is the whole rule in one line.

This rule prohibits the importation of untreated firewood into Vermont.
Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Read it at the source

Treated wood gets in only with a certified treatment to the federal standard and paperwork to show it.

It allows treated firewood to enter the state if it is treated to the USDA standard of 160° F (71.1° C) for at least 75 minutes at a certified treatment facility and is accompanied by certification of treatment.
Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Read it at the source

Vermont state parks and state forests take packaged, labelled, certified heat treated wood and nothing else from outside.

Visitors to Vermont State Parks and State Forests may not bring firewood UNLESS the wood is packaged, labeled as having been heat-treated, and certified by USDA or the appropriate state department of agriculture.
Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Read it at the source

The rule defines firewood by length, which is why short split wood is the target.

The definition of firewood states that it is wood processed for burning and less than 48 inches in length, but does not include wood chips, pellets, pulpwood, or wood for manufacturing purposes.
Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Read it at the source

There is a written waiver route through the Commissioner.

By written request, the Commissioner may waive this prohibition under conditions which ensure that the firewood poses minimal threat to forest health.
Vermont Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation. Read it at the source

The insects and diseases named in the Vermont rule are Asian longhorned beetle and oak wilt. 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 Vermont says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. New Hampshire$10
  2. New York$10

Vermont 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, Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, 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.