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Timber prices · State by state

What is my timber worthin my state?

There is no national timber price, and anybody who quotes you one has made it up. What does exist is a price report published by a university extension service or a forestry commission in most timber states, and the completed auction results a few states put out as public record. This page is the index of both: who publishes what, how often, and a link straight to it.

Pick your state below.

States covered
21
Publish a report
9
Publish sale results
8
Nothing confirmed
4

Publishers and links last checked 9 September 2026. AXE USA does not compile prices, sell a price service, or take a cut of anything you sell.

The thing to understand first

Timber has no world price

A bushel of corn is the same bushel in Iowa and in Alabama, so it trades on a screen. A standing tree cannot be shipped to the highest bidder: it has to be cut, dragged to a landing, loaded, and hauled to a gate that will take it, and the freight comes out of the same load the timber does. Move the tract fifty miles and the same trees are worth a different number.

That is why the reports below are state or region averages rather than prices, and why every one of them says so on its own front page. An average is useful for one thing: telling you whether the offer in front of you is in the neighbourhood, or nowhere near it. It is not a quote, and no landowner should treat it as one.

The site's market board makes the same argument at length, with the futures and benchmarks the trade actually prices off, and the timber value chain walks a log from the stump to the mill so you can see where each layer of the money goes.

And if the question behind the question is whether to sell at all — the timber, the ground, or both — how selling timberland actually works covers what actually drives what a buyer will pay, what a timber cruise is and who should do it, and why nobody can price your tract from a website.

Why you have to click through

We link the report. We do not reprint it.

Across the South, the stumpage averages in those quarterly reports come from TimberMart-South, a paid subscription service run out of the University of Georgia. The extension services and forestry commissions that publish summaries do it under licence, and the licence forbids anybody else republishing the figures.

So this site does not copy them out, not even rounded, and not even last quarter's. Every state page below sends you to the publisher's own page, current edition, no middleman. Where a state publishes completed auction and sale results instead — a public record of what a real sale actually fetched — those figures can be shown, and they are, with the sale and the edition date attached to each one.

It is the same rule the mill directory follows: this site will not print a fact the source did not licence it to print. You are making a five-figure decision once every fifteen years. A borrowed number is not worth what it would cost you.

The state publishes a price report

Somebody in these states puts out a regular price report, and it is worth reading before you sign anything. It is published under a licence that does not let us reprint the numbers, so each page sends you straight to the report itself.

The state publishes what timber actually sold for

These agencies put out completed sale and auction results, or run their own price survey. That is public record, so where we have read an edition the figures are on the page with the sale and the date behind them.

No state price report confirmed

We could not confirm that these states publish a timber price report. Rather than guess, their pages say so and point you at the mills that buy near your ground.

The only price that settles it is a bid on your tract

A report tells you the neighbourhood. It cannot tell you what the mills around your gate will pay this quarter for your species, your grade and your haul. Put the tract out for sealed bids and let them answer that themselves.

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