Firewood BTU/Energy Ratings

Wood Type	BTU Low	BTU High nge
Osage Orange (Hedge)	32,900
Rock Elm	32,000
Shagbark Hickory	27,700	30,600
White Oak	25,700	30,600
Bitternut Hickory	26,700	29,200
Sugar Maple	24,000	29,000
Beech	24,000	27,800
Red Oak	24,000	27,300
Eastern Hornbeam	27,300
Ironwood	27,100
Beech, Blue	26,800
Birch, Black	26,800
Locust, Black	26,800
Locust, Honey	26,700
Apple	26,500
Yellow Birch	23,600	26,200
Mulberry	25,800
Red Elm	21,800	25,400
White Ash	23,600	25,000
White Elm	19,500	24,500
Red Maple	18,700	24,000
Tamarack	20,800	24,000
Beech, High	24,000
Black Cherry	19,900	23,500
White Birch	20,300	23,400
Black Ash	19,100	22,600
Green Ash	19,900	22,100
Juniper, Rocky Mtn	21,800
Silver Maple	21,700
Coffeetree, Kentucky	21,600
Hackberry	20,800
Birch, Gray	20,300
Birch, Paper	20,300
Walnut, Black	20,200
Cherry	20,000
Elm, American	19,500
Sycamore	19,500
Manitoba Maple	19,300
Large Tooth Aspen	18,200
Fir, Douglas	18,100
Hemlock	15,900	17,900
Boxelder	17,900
Trembling Aspen	17,700
Butternut	14,500	17,400
Balsam Poplar	17,260
Alder, Red	17,200
White Pine	14,300	17100
Pine, Jack	17,100
Pine, Norway	17,100
Pine, Pitch	17,100
Basswood	13,800	17000
Catalpa	16,400
White Cedar	12,200	16300
White Spruce	14,500	16200
Spruce, Black	15,900
Balsam Fir	15,500
Pine, Ponderosa	15,200
Aspen	14,700
Butternut	14,500
Willow	14,500
Fir, Concolor (White)	14,100
Buckeye, Ohio	13,800
Cottonwood	13,500