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In the winter the firewood should be stored right next to the house, some of it inside the house. In fact the wood that you intend to burn now should be inside

In the winter the firewood should be stored right next to the house, some of it inside the house. In fact the wood that you intend to burn now should be inside the house otherwise when you put it on the fire it will depress the fire. I have one day of firewood stacked next to the woodburner and several weeks in the vindfang (an unheated porch with doors both sides). The rest is stacked at the back of the house and it would be accessible even if a drift buried the house assuming that we are just averagely fit. We aren't preppers but it makes no sense to rely on just in time deliveries in midwinter so we buy or otherwise obtain the wood for most of the winter in October or November

jethkl 4y ago
Firewood deliveries have been a regular occurrence in past years [0,1]. It seems plausible that these past deliveries established a central place where wood is stored, and it also established a local norm where firewood is distributed. Also, this is the high plains where trees grow near rivers but basically don't grow in outlying areas, with the result that general access to wood is not easy for everyone. So it's also plausible that local conditions have established another local norm where maintaining a 3 month stash of firewood is just not done. [0] https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/documents/success/rushmorefirewood.pdf https://www.forestsandrangelands.gov/documents/success/rushm... [1] https://www.blackhillsfox.com/content/news/Military-supplies-firewood-to-Pine-Ridge-Reservation-383350641.html https://www.blackhillsfox.com/content/news/Military-supplies...