Rankings · Utilities

Highest wood heat by state

Homes heated by wood.

This measure has no better end. The order describes the states, it does not rank them — see the other direction.

Share heating primarily with wood. Rarely the whole story — many rural homes supplement with a stove — but a useful signal of how rural and how self-supplied a county’s heating is.

  1. 1Vermont12.5%
  2. 2Maine8.8%
  3. 3Montana6.6%
  4. 4New Hampshire5.8%
  5. 5New Mexico5.7%
  6. 6Idaho5.4%
  7. 7Oregon4.8%
  8. 8Alaska4.6%
  9. 9West Virginia4.6%
  10. 10Wyoming4.5%
  11. 11Washington2.8%
  12. 12Wisconsin2.7%
  13. 13Arkansas2.5%
  14. 14Missouri2.4%
  15. 15Michigan2.2%
  16. 16Pennsylvania2.1%
  17. 17Kentucky1.9%
  18. 18Arizona1.6%
  19. 19Minnesota1.6%
  20. 20Virginia1.6%
  21. 21Indiana1.5%
  22. 22Colorado1.4%
  23. 23Connecticut1.4%
  24. 24Ohio1.4%
  25. 25California1.3%
  26. 26New York1.3%
  27. 27Oklahoma1.3%
  28. 28Kansas1.2%
  29. 29Iowa1.1%
  30. 30Massachusetts1.1%
  31. 31North Carolina1.1%
  32. 32Rhode Island1.1%
  33. 33South Dakota1.1%
  34. 34Tennessee1.1%
  35. 35Maryland1.0%
  36. 36Nevada1.0%
  37. 37Mississippi0.9%
  38. 38Nebraska0.8%
  39. 39Utah0.8%
  40. 40Alabama0.7%
  41. 41Delaware0.6%
  42. 42Georgia0.5%
  43. 43South Carolina0.5%
  44. 44Louisiana0.4%
  45. 45Illinois0.3%
  46. 46North Dakota0.3%
  47. 47New Jersey0.3%
  48. 48Hawaii0.2%
  49. 49Texas0.2%
  50. 50Florida0.1%
  51. 51District of Columbia0.0%
Put this map on your own site

Free to use. The chart names its source and links back, so it stays honest wherever it ends up.

<iframe src="https://movermath.com/embed/wood-heat" width="100%" height="420" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Homes heated by wood by state"></iframe>

Source: Census ACS 5-year, table B25040. · How this is built