The Five Hottest Burning Hardwoods

[@witness1449]

After 50 years of heating with firewood, I agree with your list, adding that hard maple and ash are also great to burn. Hedge apple may produce more BTU, but I would pick Hickory over every other wood, the aroma alone is epic for wood burning. Mixed with oaks, Beech, Hard Maple, and Ash. I have 6 years worth of firewood mostly Ash. All the Ash trees are now dead in Southern Indiana. We couldn't process the all the dead trees destroyed by the Emerald Ash Borer. That Ash wood fire feels nice and cozy tonight! Keep your hearths warm and have a blessed Christmas!

[@playdiscgolf1546]

Yep, same here in Michigan. I have dead ash trees all over the place to harvest.

[@kiowablue2862]

One I don't see mentioned very often is Mesquite. Farmers and ranchers hate the stuff and are only too happy to have it cut and hauled away. Like hickory, it makes nice "smoker" fuel. Burns slow, and doesn't leave a lot of ash.

[@earnestbass4043]

My grandfather told me to always keep a grove of black locust on the farm and you’ll have great firewood, the longest lasting fence posts, and a herd of whitetail deer (they love the cover, and the pods.)

[@alansach8437]

I have been heating exclusively with woodstoves for over forty years, at several homes in various parts of the country. In my experience it doesn't really matter what "the best" is. You burn what you can get! Being picky is fine if you are burning for ambience, but if it's your source of heat, you want cheap and readily accessable. For me, that has mostly been pine. In a good stove, a load of pine will still last a good twelve hours, and the heat is more than adequate. The key is the stove, not the wood.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

alansach You are right !!! Any wood that burns is fire wood and what available!!! I burned wood for years in a stove and burned mostly Doug fir, hemlock western red cedar, occasionally pine or alder or maple, but alder and maple made 3 times the ash of Doug fir/Hemlock. Doug fir, Hemlock cedar burn hot because of all the sap/pitch in it.

[@meddlehedd1194]

must depend on where you live. I wouldn't waste my time splitting pine here in southern Ontario in northern Ontario I imagine it would be worthless.

[@Michael-u8b3l]

@@alansach8437 buy a stove designed and built in British Columbia. It will do nicely with soft wood. Being that pine, fir, and cedar are abundant and finding hardwood to burn is virtually impossible

[@gregorystinette8271]

I discovered that if you want to split green wood, wait until winter when the temperature stays below freezing ; the moisture content crystallizes & makes the wood brittle.

[@Elwood-kq6ld]

I've been burning for over 30 years. Here in the middle of the country, we don't have any beech or hickory. I have to agree with hedge/Osage orange, white oak and locust. I am a scrounger for firewood and take what I can get. The perfect fire is a mix of silver maple, ash, and mulberry. You can't go wrong with a mixed bag. This year I have pear, apple, silver maple, elm and mulberry.

[@glennpoorman5937]

Good cooking wood,smoking

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

I agree. We mix wood many times.

[@woodsplitter3274]

Yup. 100% in agreement. Mixed hardwood is the best. I am a fan of maple, oak, and locust. Mulberry (from urban areas) is my favorite. It's greenish yellow but seasons to a beautiful brown.

[@DdD-pi8jw]

Burning pear and apple for firewood??! Dude, that is prime smoker fuel. You’re throwing money away.

[@Bunnybarnacres]

Birch and Tamarac (larch) are also very hot

Black Locust is my choice. It grows FAST, and is close to home (in the empty lot behind my house which I have been given permission to harvest.) Not too difficult to split, and it has very fragrant flowers in early June.

[@johnduffy6546]

Having cut, split and burned Osage Orange for over 50 years, I'd have to say your video is spot-on! This stuff is evil to work with and the thorns are hateful but, it does produce a crazy amount of heat! Not for the faint of heart...I used to split it by hand until I discovered wood splitters...OMG, if you have to work with Osage Orange, rent, borrow or buy a big-assed splitter. (25 ton should do it) You can thank me later...This wood will make an old man outta ya in short order...But, it's worth it!...It goes snap, crackle , pop just like Rice Krispies...DON'T over-load a wood stove with it. You will warp it!

[@marktwain2053]

It depends on what part of the country you're in. Where I live,the most abundant firewood trees, listed by availability, are Black Locust, Honey Locust, Post Oak, Pecan, Black Walnut, Poplar, Mulberry, Bois D'arc (pronounced: Bow Dark, aka - Osage Orange, Horse Apple, Hedge Apple), and Mesquite. Osage Orange burns the hottest, of course (and it is best to mix it with one of the lesser types), followed closely by Mesquite (which is harder to get), then Black, and Honey Locust, and Post Oak (a type of White Oak). The rest are a mixed bag, but definitely worth the effort.

[@Hoosier_Cowboy]

I like red elm really well when I can find it ! Not the white elm. Cherry is also a favorite of mine. Burns well and smells great !

[@ScottMason-ss8ww]

I'm in the UK. Best, wood for me would be ash, maple, cherry, beach, oak birch. Also one of the best if you can get it is hawthorn. As it takes so long to get to any size no one bothers with it commercially, plus it's thornie as! It burns very hot though and clean as a whistle, good flame and white ash. If I could only have one though, it would be ash all day. Burns super clean, good heat and great to split, great wood.

[@jaycook2146]

Standing dead elm is best

[@ScottMason-ss8ww]

@jaycook2146 we don't get elm in Britain, Dutch elm disease killed most of it off, although I think it might be making a slow recovery.

[@johnlovett8341]

Good list. Didn't see beech or black locust coming ... But growing up in SW Missouri loved burning Osage Orange (Bois d'arc)

[@alankosinki8751]

Great video

[@Desire_of_Ages]

Thanks for sharing 👍

[@coalknob]

lots of good comments here; for me, there are hotter burning woods available, but black cherry checks off all the boxes. I love it.

[@SIC-SEMPER-TYRANNIS]

That's all I burn when possible. I love the smell of Cherry in the woodbox.

[@Bay0Wulf]

Have to be cautious with cherry. Its known for outgassing cyanide while burning.

[@jamiedalluge9472]

Burning wood is a wonderful heat source as theirs nothing like wood heat, however it's a commitment and a great responsibility on burning it safely and efficiently. Proper stove and chimney maintenance and adequate seasoning of the wood are a must. Be safe and stay warm folks

[@JIgginCrappie]

No mention of black jack or cedar

[@paulscott6998]

I like locust. It burns so hot you can mix it with other woods. I like how it splits.

[@bryancook1018]

Hard maple is an excellent hardwood as well.

[@duskintheforest584]

Here in deep south Texas, freezing weather is rare, but when it comes, i use our good sized fireplace to burn mesquite that is plentiful on my huge corner lot. I lop off the low hanging stuff, dead wood and that enough for bbq and fireplace all year. It dries very fast down here, believe me. 2-3 summer months dries it out completely. Minimal smoke, low soot producing. I have oak here too. I only use what falls off. Our brick house is well insulated, has thick outer walls, so the hearth is enough to warm 2500 sq ft comfortably. An armload of mesquite burns about 2hrs, but the massive hearth radiates warmth for hours

[@grayghostmoseby7123]

Eastern Hophornbeam is the hottest burning wood from my woods and my woods consist of hickory, white and red oak, beech, cherry,hard and soft maple among a lot of other woods.

[@markedward5941]

I'm curious how they compare to our hardwoods here in Australia. I have timber here that we can hardly cut with a chainsaw and you most certainly can't split it by hand, it's like granite. We tend to avoid it for heaters because it burns so hot it will halve the life of your wood burner.

[@georgevavoulis4758]

Thank you for your reviews very informative ❤

[@user-sd8vl4cy5k]

Black walnut burns hot also.

[@ST-xx9rt]

Ironwood, rock elm, tamarac/larch. I sold firewood for extra cash for 25+ years. In Northern Wisconsin. Mostly red oak and sugar maple. Those are the most common around here. These days ash is available everywhere. White ash dries fast, Splits easily, and is about the same as White oak for output. Black ash takes forever to dry I don't know anything about Green Ash. I've noticed most people don't dry their firewood very well. Get a outdoor boiler. Then it won't matter what type of wood you burn. Just get a massive pile I know where you go

[@Chuckiesezletsplay]

Green ash is almost as good as white ash.

[@DanJackson-yj2dx]

Been burning Osage in my drolet stove for ten years. Keeps us warm all winter. 😅

[@jimzeleny7213]

I burn Birch exclusively. Never tried the stuff you mentioned because it's not native in my area.

[@PhilipYoungblood-n6t]

you will never go wrong burning the wood you have in the local area.

[@Northman1963]

"Ash wet or ash dry, a king shall warm his slippers by" Old English saying

[@osagejon8972]

the whole poem is great

[@davidscott9572]

The emerald ash borer has created an abundance of dead ash trees.

[@jefffrayer8238]

@@davidscott9572 Really good splitting and burning too. No cherry? Burns hot and nice coals. Very good video.

[@davidscott9572]

@jefffrayer8238 just cut an 8 inch cherry dead and full of ants it never burns to ash and stops at charcoal. My favorite is ash love oak but had some 3 year old red oak that still was smoky.

[@sandbar6078]

No mention of black walnut? It’s good wood but takes along time, 2 to 3+years to dry out. Burns hot and lasts along time. I like to mix ash, basswood and ironwood , red elm, locust, hickory or any fruit wood. I use some cedar when handy. Hickory and oak is good too. 2 to 2 1/2 cord per season. Even heat is much nicer than forced air propane furnaces. From southwest Iowa

[@jamespotter1990]

I like OSB mixed with bridgestone truck tires and 80w90

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

I dont have any recent data on the BTU output of 90 weight combined with radials and particle board but it may be worth digging into for a future video. Stay tuned!

[@clayton1439]

Lmfao

[@richcooke9241]

Throw in some used oil filters and the shop will be warm

[@NelsonGeorge_ng]

You know the numbers in the triangles on food containers? is the higher the number, the hotter it burns? or vice versa?

[@RC-ml3ne]

We, in western North Carolina, love locust. Hickory is terrific but can actually burn too hot!

[@chrismurphy4142]

I have been burning wood since 1973. Here in Southern Illinois, we have a lot of oak. Red, white, pen oak, hickory. You name it, we have it. My favorite is hickory. I cut standing dead only.

[@kjames8299]

Thanks forthe info

[@a.w.w.728]

Last year i used a mix of oak and OS. OS does burn very hot. Definitely worth getting and using.

[@johnslaughter5475]

I would be interested in knowing how tamarack (western larch) stacks up. We have a whole lot of pine around here, ponderosa and lodge pole) but avoid them because of the creosote. We also have a lot of douglas fir (a red fir) which is a very good firewood. But, our best, is the tamarack. It is very dense, burns hot and lasts and also leaves little ash.

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

Well funny you should ask. We listed Tamarack in this linked video. Thanks for watching. kzbin.info/www/bejne/boeweKFmi5iNZ7M

[@stevehardwick7285]

No softwood (coniferous) trees are as good as hardwood. I burn mostly beech and maple in northern Maine, maple has a little more btu's but I have a commercial sugarbush, so don't burn much maple. I've used tamarack before, but it's not close to the hardwoods.

[@johnslaughter5475]

@@stevehardwick7285 We have to use what is available. In northern Idaho it's mostly conifers. Washington, just west of us, is the evergreen state. So, around here, the tamarack becomes the wood of choice. These, plus the huge fir trees, provide a lot of wood. The tree I just cut down next to my house, yielded about 1-1/2 cords

[@stevehardwick7285]

@@johnslaughter5475 Yeah, I'd say tamarack is probably the best conifer. Is that a douglas fir? I know they get huge!

[@johnslaughter5475]

@@stevehardwick7285 Yes, it was a Douglas Fir. It was only about 40 years old but was 25" in diameter and around 80'. They can grow to over 15' in diameter and around 250' in height.

[@flcracker228]

Down in South Florida we have a tree called an Australian Pine that is invasive and it burns extremely hot. It has no sap and is more along the line of an oak. Would really like to see BTU information on it.

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

The Austrailian Pine isn't a true Pine, but it puts off about 20 million BTUs of heat. I'd consider it a medium density hardwood and pretty good for using indoors.

[@TB-zw7dt]

A venture into what tree species burn well when fresh cut and green would be informative. What burns fairly when fresh cut? Thanks for the informative videos.

[@kenkrantz1454]

Ash is really the only species that burns efficiently when fresh cut (unseasoned).

[@don66hotrod94]

"Ash wood wet or ash wood dry, a king will warm his slippers by."

[@clintfultz1811]

Northern MN. Tamarack will literally melt your stove if not careful.

[@stephenbird5472]

Interesting video! Not sure why you omitted the top hottest burning hardwoods from your list but for those who want hotter burning woods than those listed in this video, the top three are; Casuarina (Ironwood), Eucalyptus (varied spp.), and Madrone. I like Madrone the best because it burns clean and leaves very little ash. It also has a nice fragrance. The other advantage of Ironwood and Eucalyptus is that they grow much faster than your listed trees. More like your locust in growth rate.

[@rainmaker6335]

Great video if you live in the south where u hardly need wood to heat your house. Perhaps a video is in order for those who live in Northern Maine or UP Michigan or Northern Minnesota, Alaska, Canada.

[@jayhales3822]

Don't forget Wisconsin

[@vashonwatchdog]

Maple, Madrone, Cherry, are favorites, but as we mostly have fir, it’s what we burn the most; this and Alder

[@johncmitchell4941]

I've never been disappointed with Cherry, mulberry, or apple.

[@petewerner1494]

The hottest wood in Canada is Tamarac aka Larch. It is the densest wood and will warp a stove if not careful. It's the only wood that does not float in a river or lake,, sinks to the bottom instantly. It's actually a deciduous tree that loses its needles every winter then regrows them in the spring.

[@thomasmcginnis3783]

And it eats people. I guess. Or did you mean _deciduous_ ??

[@petewerner1494]

@@thomasmcginnis3783 Yea, boy did I ever goof on that one! Oldtimers disease. I'll fix that!

[@thomasmcginnis3783]

@@petewerner1494 I dunno. I thought it was pretty cute. If Yoot Ube had gifs, you could've hunted up a great cartoon, I bet. Oh well. At least you and I got a chuckle. Cheers!

[@garycuster5031]

Give me Bitternut (smooth bark hickory) and I'm a happy camper. It really coals up!!

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

You sure about locust and hickory?? My experience with locust its hotter and longer burning than hickory

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

There are different strands of Locust and Hickory, and climate/location/etc all can affect density, and ratings will vary depending on the source. Regardless, these 5 species will roast the chestnuts. Thanks for tuning in!

[@hereandthere9023]

Dad used to mix Black Locust and Hedge. He was a bit concerned with the stove slabbing down at times. The mix was supposed to help a little.

[@David-e5e5f]

I sold firewood for 40 some years in my experience Osage orange is great but it usually only grows in hedgerows apparently it doesn't like to be shaded out and that's why it's only in the hedgerows and not very many of those around I usually didn't have any trouble selling all the wood I had because my competitors would sneak in Pine and fur but in my area there wasn't any so I didn't come across it too much and if I did I used it myself even though it's a creosote problem that's that's what it all boils down to

[@MrSummerbreeze01]

I burn Ash, Hickory, Cherry, B Locust, Red Oak, but i always use my Hard Maple on the nights below 10 F. Coals up the best and hottest. seasoned 3+ years.

[@AllanHunter-c2l]

Many years ago there was no such thing as power splitters. I see several types of power splitters.

[@tomjoad3034]

I live in east-central Oklahoma and I have a Fairly good Sized smokehouse Where I make beef jerky and smoke hams. I only Use 4 types of Wood.. Hickory, Maple, apple, Cherry.!!! I use the hickory and maple for the Majority of the Smoking process and then at the end i use the apple and cherry to make the meat taste sweet !!!

[@attitudeadjusted9027]

Try mulberry. It's awesome for smoking as well and for heat. I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned 🤠

[@curtisthompson7383]

You forgot about ashe! It is easy to split and produces alot of heat. Ashe is dying off because of the invasive beetle that is killing them so there is alot of ashe trees that need to be removed and burned.

[@Bay0Wulf]

Ash IS “good” and the recent massive availability of it is due to it dying off is unquestionable but … it burns relatively fast and doesn’t put out as much heat as other alternatives.

[@Cruiser777]

I live in Arizona, and we have a lot of Mystique Birch. Put the past four years, it has been hard to get Hickory, and it's not cheap.

[@RandyDesin]

Locus is the hottest burning wood by far.

[@hunterjames3167]

Sorry that goes to the live oak of the Deep South!!! The most dense, hard, heaviest wood in the US! It even surpases Osage orange and locust easily!!

[@loquat4440]

Black locust should be used for fence posts and not wasted by burning. Osage orange is another useful wood that should not wasted in a stove. There was no mention of live oak that we have in north gulf coast of mexico. Most of my wood is not dried or seasoned and I regularly removed the creosote.

[@Matt-d8m]

Here in Canada some of the best hardwoods to burn are Ironwood, Maple, White Birch, White Ash, Cherry, and Elm

[@blythkd9017]

Hedge (osage orange) does burn very hot and makes excellent firewood if your equipment is up to the task. Works great in a fireplace but may burn too hot for a wood stove unless it's a very good one. A pile of hedge wood will literally create a forge. Plus all the popping and sparks may not be something some folks want in their home. But I have to disagree with the comment about taking several saw chains with you to cut it. When it's green, it doesn't dull a chain any more than any other wood. If you cut up old dead dry trees, I've seen sparks fly from it but a good chain will still last a while between sharpenings.

[@camwinston5248]

Osage orange.-"bois de arc" or bodock in the south..the old horse apple tree.

[@joedavenport-vn5qv]

I love alligator Juniper I live in New Mexico it has been a very good wood for me burning hot and clean. I burn it for about six or seven years now, but I’ve had a stove 40 years. I burn all kinds of wood and I like this the best of all.

[@bloqk16]

Also suggested when it comes to storing firewood: Keep it away from the side of the house. Stacking firewood against the outdoor siding of the house can invite problems with invasive insects and vermin doing damage to the siding; as well as invading into the domicile.

[@seangordon1060]

Pacific Madrone is incredible wood. Hot, No bark, very little mess,, easy to split when green, and leaves a fine white ash that’s easy to clean up

[@AK-bw8xk]

California resident who burns whatever wood i can get and eucalyptus burns hot and long from my room temperature IQ experience. 😊

[@robertsimpson7113]

When you state BTU's per cord, what size cord are you referring to? Face or bush?

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

A Full Cord, 4'x4'x8.

[@patbrennan6572]

I'm not sure but my guess would be face chord, been wrong before though.

[@kidglort3781]

I cut down my neighbors callery pear in July and I’m burning it now. It’s dry!

[@robertlivingston1634]

Where I live hard maple is most abundant and makes fine firewood but if you can find large enough ironwood, that will dry your socks

[@firstjohn3123]

👍

[@tyrrellroach5872]

My dad use to tell me stories of burning hedge. It was ok would burn so hot that the heating pipes in his trailer would glow white. Taking them to near molten temperatures. Definitely not something that should be used lightly. As for locust on this list yep it’s dense but the short rose like thorns make it very undesirable to work with

[@meddlehedd1194]

They forgot ironwood/hop hornbeam.

[@jamesdavidsmith4033]

Osage orange 🔥

[@chrisgabbert658]

An all hickory fire can turn a stove reddish orange yep I played attention to what wood I was using after that.

[@leefury7]

Nothing compares to Osage Orange. I have cut it and burned it for 50 yrs. Had to stop using cast iron stoves as it would warp them. Made my own 3/8th inch steel stove with angle iron buttresses. Warped it as well. Now I have a soap stone stove. Not only the highest BTU wood but also the heaviest wood. You can also burn it as soon as you cut it. I had cut a 40" diameter trunk and left it whole to come back to get it later. Someone started a fire on it. Like coal, once it starts on fire, you're not going to put it out. Easy to split when green. Full chisel chain on a Stihl Farm Boss .041, also 50 yrs old. Has to burn in a stove as it is a sparkling wood. Even in a stove, you have to be careful when reloading a fire as a sudden rush of air will start it spraying embers. Oak is a joke. Black Locust was much better. But nothing equals Osage. I have wood cut and stacked that is 40 yrs old and it never rots. With farmers no longer planting hedge rows, I hate to cut it. The one drawback...lots of ash.

[@maplebones]

Ebony is excellent. Actually, any part of a piano or guitar is good.

[@warrenklaus-tm1oo]

This is all fine and dandy, but most of us burn the local woods that are mist available. I have been many wood species over the years and what I can definitely say is that no matter which we stsyed warm.

[@wobdeehomestead]

I thought Ironwood (Hophornbeam)would be up there?

[@sallyandtoshrenwick8302]

Precisely what I thought. That stuff will warp your stove.

[@JB-wr2lx]

I’ve burned wood for heat since the 60’s , my choice for the hottest burning would be Iron wood followed by red oak . 🇨🇦

[@trevorcooley430]

Hands down Red oak

[@jimk2988]

1- hedgewood, 2- Hickory, 3-Black locust, 4- white oak, 5-beechwood

[@haveyouseenkyle]

White oak mixed with tulip poplar, burns hotter than either separately.

[@Willy12927]

I like to season my osage orange for at least three years before burning. Also, if it has set a while before I can get to cutting it, I use a carbide tipped chainsaw blade.

[@johnbarth684]

It's important to burn wood as a mix of different species. The fire will burn better and longer. I've been at it since the 70s.

[@davidcarpenter8741]

Black birch / sweet birch is a damn good burning wood. right up there with oak, ash, beech, locust and cherry.

[@Lmfleaflicker]

I love the smell of black cherry burning

[@coalknob]

yes, for sure. definitely my favorite

[@johnchandler1687]

Hedgewood=Bois D'Ark= Horseapple trees. You have to cut and split it green. When it's dry it'll dull your saws and axes fast. It hard as iron, almost.

[@donvoll2580]

Good day from Ontario. Many yrs ago we had log from bush & dad called it iron wood Then I bought some for firewood, sat a yr. but when in furnace u could see moisture coming out end Very hard Ths

[@greggsnyder8586]

Hedge apple/Osage orange

[@osagejon8972]

yep

[@marktwain2053]

Actual name is Bois D'arc (pronounced: Bow Dark), but most know it as Osage Orange, or Horse Apple in my neck of the woods.

[@jlangevin65]

@@marktwain2053 There's no such thing as an actual common name - the actual name is Maclura pomifera.

[@leechjim8023]

It would seem that burning hardwoods would be VERY expensive!

[@RandyMullins-o7b]

Hackberry and sycamore is hard to beat

[@richardphelps5041]

Back. 40-50 years ago red elm was the best

[@jamespileggi6650]

Mulberry is s dense hardwood that puts off a lot of heat.

[@davidhurt1579]

Mulberry is a hardwood?? It grows like a weed.

[@marktwain2053]

​@@davidhurt1579 It's hardness is comparable to Oak, and Mahogany.

[@keithstudly6071]

Mulberry is a close relative of hedge and the wood is similar. Both have that yellow color when fresh split but quickly go to brown.

[@craigmatheson2736]

Most of my "free" wood is cottonwood. Some pine and even less cedar and pinõn are also available.

[@MesaBoogieman82]

I heard Locust has most BTU's

[@xxrice]

Black locust is like burning coal. A nice blue flame, it's a man's firewood. Seasons fast and easy to split.

[@American-OutdoorsNet]

Yes, it is. Thanks for tuning in!

[@marleymayfield2635]

I live in logging country where Oak is abundant. Red oak and Chestnut oak make up 90% of what I burn. Hot fire and splits very well with a maul.

[@JohnJohn-wr1jo]

Locust seems to be the hottest wood I've utilized in the Mid Atlantic region

[@davidlangley1844]

Black jack is harder to split but it will make a house warm

[@patbrennan6572]

I thought hard maple would have been on this list.

[@raymillard6457]

If you split it smaller it will dry faster and burn hotter

[@annaaron3510]

Heating 100% with firewood you "dance with the one who brings ya ". Harvest and burn what grows where you are. Oaks are fine, BUTT take too long to dry. Black Locust is our choice when we can get it from arborist or logger friends. Softwoods from blowdowns used in shoulder times, then what we have here in Downeast Maine coastal regions for winter : some ash, red/soft maple, paper birch, little yellow birch and little beech. No "rules". All depends. JMNSHO

[@Michael-u8b3l]

Obviously east coast biased. Woods on the west coast. Live oak (36.6 million btus per cord) Eucalyptus (34.5 million Btus) Almond (32.9 million btus) Pacific Madrone (30.9 million btus)

[@fancymcentire5710]

free wood is the best other than that if you can find it osage orange its best.

[@jaycook2146]

What about red oak , all oak is good also

[@davidisaacson5993]

Anykind of citrus wood is the best fire wood. Tangerine is the best citrus wood

[@oldcodger4371]

My favorite of course is White Oak. I have a lot of Beech on my property and it is my second favorite. For me, Hickory burns too hot. I can only put one stick at a time in my woodstove with the rest of the wood being Oak or Beech. Not even gonna try Hedgewood.

[@BradAdams-fu4qx]

Tamarack is probably the hottest but dont last long.had a stove almost melt down once with that..😊😊😊😊😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@robertcope9494]

Larch

[@timmywade1313]

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