BURN WISELY
The EPA provides a fact sheet to help you burn wisely:
http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/pdfs/BurnWiseTips.pdf
BURNING TIPS
FIREWOOD BURN RATINGS
Wood Rating Heat Burn Split Smoke Sparks BTUs
Variety Yield Difficulty Difficulty per Cord
Red Oak Excellent High Easy Hard Light No 21.7
White Oak Excellent High Easy Hard Light No 26.5
Walnut Good Medium Easy Hard Light No 20.3
Douglas Fir Good High Easy Hard Heavy Yes 21.4
White Pine Fair Low Medium Hard Medium No 15.8
Madrone Excellent High Hard Easy Light No 30
The EPA provides a fact sheet to help you burn wisely:
http://www.epa.gov/burnwise/pdfs/BurnWiseTips.pdf
BURNING TIPS
- For firewood, use dry hardwood such as oak, almond, walnut.
- To get a fire going use just enough softwood for kindling. Stack a few pieces of kindling below your hardwoods.
- Do not burn pine exclusively for firewood as pine quickly builds up creosote in your chimney, setting up conditions for a chimney fire.
- Don't burn plastics or paper with color printing, such as junk mail, flyers, comics, magazines, gift wrap, etc. because they may give off toxic fumes.
- Absolutely NEVER use flammable liquids in your fireplace or wood burning stove.
FIREWOOD BURN RATINGS
Wood Rating Heat Burn Split Smoke Sparks BTUs
Variety Yield Difficulty Difficulty per Cord
Red Oak Excellent High Easy Hard Light No 21.7
White Oak Excellent High Easy Hard Light No 26.5
Walnut Good Medium Easy Hard Light No 20.3
Douglas Fir Good High Easy Hard Heavy Yes 21.4
White Pine Fair Low Medium Hard Medium No 15.8
Madrone Excellent High Hard Easy Light No 30