Biomass Fuels | Heat Values of Wood

WOOD	BTU/pound	BARK TYPE	BTU/pound
Bigleaf maple	8,410	American beech	7,993
Black cottonwood	8,800	American elm Ulmus americana	7,385
Cypress	10,660	American sycamore Platanus occidentalis	7,877
Douglas-fir	9,200	Balsam fir	9,339
Hickory	9,360	Balsam fir Abies balsamea	9,437
Lodgepole pine	8,600	Balsam (all varieties)	9,100
Oregon ash	8,200	Beech	7,640
Oregon white oak	8,110	Black cottonwood	9,000
Pitch pine	12,230	Black gum Nyssa sylvatica	8,412
Ponderosa pine	9,140	Black oak	8,340
Poplar	9,630	Black spruce	9,143
Red alder	8,000	Black spruce Picea mariana	8,782
Red oak	9,360	Black tupelo	8,102
Redwood	9,210	Black willow	8,137
Sitka spruce	8,100	Black willow Salix nigra	7,648
Western hemlock	8,620	Douglas-fir	10,100
Western red cedar	9,700	Eastern cottonwood	8,422
White ash	9,630	Eastern hemlock	9,517
White birch	9,340	Eastern hemlock Tsuga canadensis	9,348
White cedar	9,070	Eastern white pine	9,647
White fir	8,300	Elm (soft)	7,600
White oak	9,510	Engelmann spruce	8,830
White pine	9,610	Engelmann spruce Picea engelmannii	8,820
Yellow pine	10,380	Green ash	8,367
		Jack pine	9,393
		Jack pine Pinus banksiana	9,339
		Loblolly pine	9,320
		Loblolly pine Pinus taeda	9,400
		Lodgepole pine	9,382
		Lodgepole pine Pinus contorta	10,760
		Longleaf pine	9,290
		Longleaf pine Pinus palustris	9,130
		Northern black cottonwood	8,765
		Northern red oak	8,896
		Northern red oak Quercus rubra	8,383
		Northern white oak	7,536
		Northern white oak Quercus alba	7,450
		Paper birch Betula papyrifera	9,887
		Pin oak	8,883
		Ponderosa pine	9,616
		Poplar	8,810
		Post oak	6,773
		Quaking aspen	8,712
		Quaking aspen Populus tremuloides	8,897
		Red alder	8,760
		Red alder Alnus rubra	8,410
		Red maple	8,293
		Red pine	9,070
		Red spruce	8,630
		Shagbark hickory	8,423
		Shortleaf pine	9,319
		Shortleaf pine Pinus echinata	9,550