Rankings · Utilities

Lowest 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. 1District of Columbia0.0%
  2. 2Florida0.1%
  3. 3Hawaii0.2%
  4. 4Texas0.2%
  5. 5Illinois0.3%
  6. 6North Dakota0.3%
  7. 7New Jersey0.3%
  8. 8Louisiana0.4%
  9. 9Georgia0.5%
  10. 10South Carolina0.5%
  11. 11Delaware0.6%
  12. 12Alabama0.7%
  13. 13Nebraska0.8%
  14. 14Utah0.8%
  15. 15Mississippi0.9%
  16. 16Maryland1.0%
  17. 17Nevada1.0%
  18. 18Iowa1.1%
  19. 19Massachusetts1.1%
  20. 20North Carolina1.1%
  21. 21Rhode Island1.1%
  22. 22South Dakota1.1%
  23. 23Tennessee1.1%
  24. 24Kansas1.2%
  25. 25California1.3%
  26. 26New York1.3%
  27. 27Oklahoma1.3%
  28. 28Colorado1.4%
  29. 29Connecticut1.4%
  30. 30Ohio1.4%
  31. 31Indiana1.5%
  32. 32Arizona1.6%
  33. 33Minnesota1.6%
  34. 34Virginia1.6%
  35. 35Kentucky1.9%
  36. 36Pennsylvania2.1%
  37. 37Michigan2.2%
  38. 38Missouri2.4%
  39. 39Arkansas2.5%
  40. 40Wisconsin2.7%
  41. 41Washington2.8%
  42. 42Wyoming4.5%
  43. 43Alaska4.6%
  44. 44West Virginia4.6%
  45. 45Oregon4.8%
  46. 46Idaho5.4%
  47. 47New Mexico5.7%
  48. 48New Hampshire5.8%
  49. 49Montana6.6%
  50. 50Maine8.8%
  51. 51Vermont12.5%
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Source: Census ACS 5-year, table B25040. · How this is built