What standing timber sold for in 20 US states, by species, from each state's latest report

One page per state with the state's own stumpage report turned into a single table: species or product, unit and log rule, range, average and number of reports, with the report's caveat quoted and a converted column where the report prints a factor. Free, in early access.

Who this is for

Family forest owners who just got a logger's offer and want to know what standing timber actually sold for in their state this year, by species, from the state's own report rather than from a blog that estimates it. Also for consulting foresters, loggers and small timber investors who follow more than one state.

The problem

Every state that publishes stumpage prices publishes them differently: a quarterly PDF from a university extension in the South (statewide averages per ton, mostly based on TimberMart-South data), a state-forest sales report by management unit in Michigan, a mill survey by region in Ohio, a per-county landowner-report compilation once a year in Maine, a tax table in Wisconsin and Georgia, delivered-log prices instead of stumpage in Kentucky. Units are dollars per ton, per cord, per thousand board feet Doyle, Scribner or International 1/4", and the same logs can scale 70% apart between rules. Search "timber prices in mississippi" and page one is the MSU PDFs back to 2003 plus third-party pages whose numbers are estimates derived from older data.

What this does

One page per state with that state's latest public report turned into a single table: species or product, unit and log rule, the range, average or median and the number of sales or respondents, the report's own caveat quoted, and, where the report prints a conversion factor, a column converted to dollars per MBF Doyle with the factor shown beside it. Every row on this site was copied from the report linked on that page, fetched on 17 October 2026; nothing is estimated. The finished product will refetch each report the week it drops, keep the history from each state's archive as a chart, and show every figure with its report date.

What is free and what is early access

The state tables are free. Two things are in early access: an email the day your state's report updates, and a "get an independent forester" request that sends your state and acreage to a consulting forester who works for the seller, not the mill. Leave your email above to get either when they launch. No appraisals, no buyer directory, no user-submitted prices: only what the states publish.

How to read the tables

The reports behind each page

States checked and not included, because no current public report with per-species or per-product figures exists: Alabama (the Forestry Commission points to TimberMart-South, whose free page shows charts without figures), Tennessee (the Forest Products Bulletin stopped in 2017), Minnesota (DNR price review last posted for 2021), Vermont (last report 2023), Indiana (delivered prices to 2020; the consultants' 2025 survey has no species rows), Iowa (no report found) and New Hampshire (the Department of Revenue Administration's average stumpage value lists exist but its site refused every download on 17 October 2026).

Where the numbers come from

All figures are from the state agency, state university extension and state forestry commission reports linked on each page and listed below; public records or university publications with no reuse terms stated. Several Southern reports say their statewide averages are based on TimberMart-South data; those pages quote only the extension's published average with a link and never TimberMart-South's own tables. The US Forest Service's timber price questions and answers explain how to read stumpage reports.