Pettis County, MO
Modeled firewood price: seasoned, cut and split, delivered, per full cord
Modeled from climate and demand; no local prices yet
$400 / cord
Most delivered full-cord prices here are likely between $200 and $775 (90% range).
no observation anywhere informs this number; it is theory (structural prior) alone.
The range is wide, so use the price as a rough guide.
- Firewood
- $20.00
- Propane
- $24.20
- Natural gas
- $31.22
Cost per MMBtu of heat, before stove or furnace efficiency.
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Compare heating costs
To compare fuels fairly, this table prices each one per MMBtu: one million BTU, a fixed amount of heat energy. Firewood here works out to about $20.00 per MMBtu. These costs come before your stove or furnace's efficiency is counted.
| Fuel | $ / MMBtu | As of |
|---|---|---|
| Firewood (this estimate) | $20.00 | 2026-10-01 |
| Propane | $24.20 | 2026-03-30 |
| Natural gas | $31.22 | 2026-07 |
| Electricity | $47.16 | 2026-07 |
Comparison fuel prices are state averages reported by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Adjusted for typical appliance efficiency
The same costs, adjusted for how much of each fuel's heat a typical appliance actually delivers to your rooms. Shown only where a documented efficiency figure exists.
| Fuel | Appliance | Efficiency | $ / MMBtu useful heat |
|---|---|---|---|
| Firewood | Wood stove, conventional | 54% | $37.04 |
| Firewood | Wood stove, EPA-certified | 68% | $29.41 |
| Natural gas | Gas furnace, current federal minimum | 80% | $39.02 |
Emissions
Firewood combustion releases about 93.8 kg of biogenic CO2 per MMBtu burned. This is reported separately and is not netted against, or treated as offset by, anything on this page — see why we report it separately.
| Fossil fuel | kg CO2e / MMBtu | ≈ tree-seedling-years of CO2 uptake |
|---|---|---|
| Natural gas | 53.1 | 0.88 |
| Propane | 63.1 | 1.04 |
The seedling-year figure illustrates the scale of each fossil fuel's own emissions per MMBtu burned; it is not a wood-vs-fossil offset claim.
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Every price is reviewed before it can change an estimate. An AI agent reviews most prices under human supervision, and a person decides anything unusual. Review usually takes about a week, so your price won't change this page right away. We can use prices for a full cord only, not a face cord or a truckload.
How this estimate was built
- Evidence: no real firewood price from this county or its state is available yet, so this estimate comes from climate and demand alone.
- Climate: 5,309 heating degree days a year, a measure of how much heating a place needs (NOAA 1991–2020 normal, base 65°F).
- Wood heat: 3.0% of occupied homes here heat mainly with wood (2024, Census ACS).
- Model version 1.0.0, coefficient set v3, data as of 2026-10-01. Sources, uncertainty and limits are on the methodology page.