Federal timber
sale prices
Prices the US government received for timber sold from national forests and BLM lands — public-domain federal data. This is not the private market, and it carries the Forest Service's own warning that the figures are not reliable unit values.
Federal timber-sale prices
These are prices for timber sold from US NATIONAL FORESTS and other federal land (public data), not the private timber market. Federal timber-sale reports are public domain (17 USC §105). They tell you what the government sold its public stumpage for — heavily shaped by contract mix, region, salvage and appraisal — not a private mill or delivered market quote.
USDA Forest Service caveat
Important: the USDA Forest Service states on every Cut-and-Sold report, verbatim, "Do not use this report to determine unit values." Since FY2019 the totals include Good Neighbor Authority volumes without their values, and since FY2023 free-use firewood is counted in sold volume at zero value — both pull the average price down. Treat the figures below as broad indicators, not reliable unit prices.
National forests – timber sold
Nature: public timber sale (sold/award value). CCF (hundred cubic feet) and MBF (thousand board feet) are printed independently by the Forest Service and are not interconverted here. Source: USDA Forest Service Cut-and-Sold reports.
| Product | Period | Volume sold | Value sold | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All convertible products | FY2024 | 2,883,969 MBF | $143,855,316 | $49.88/MBF sold $56.71/MBF harvested |
| Sawtimber only | FY2025 Q1-Q2 | 983,466 CCF 525,965 MBF | $36,799,682 | $37.42/CCF $69.97/MBF |
USFS reports print both CCF (hundred cubic feet) and MBF (thousand board feet) independently; they are not interconverted here. Sawtimber-only excludes the zero-value firewood that distorts the all-products figure.
BLM Western Oregon (O&C lands) public auctions
Individual federal auction batches (not an annual average). The approximate $/MBF is the published total value divided by the published total volume of that batch. Source: BLM Western Oregon Timber Sales.
| Auction batch | Sales | Volume | Total value | Approx. $/MBF* |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 2025 | 9 | 55.1 MMBF | $14,343,372 | ~$260 |
| Jul 2025 | 3 | 19.2 MMBF | $5,726,255 | ~$298 |
*Approximate: total published value divided by total published volume of that batch, not an annual average.
Timber sold by Forest Service region (volume, not price)
Regional PRICE per unit is not published reliably (the agency disclaims unit values). What is clean is regional VOLUME sold. Forest Service regions are not states; there is no Region 7. Unit: MBF per year, FY2014-2023 average. Source: U.S. GAO-25-107496, Table 2.
| Region | States covered | MBF/yr |
|---|---|---|
| Pacific Northwest (R6) | Oregon, Washington | 585,096 |
| Eastern (R9) | 20 states: New England, Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, upper Midwest | 571,519 |
| Southern (R8) | AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, TX, VA, OK | 566,426 |
| Pacific Southwest (R5) | California, Hawaii | 337,377 |
| Northern (R1) | Montana, N. Idaho, North Dakota, NW South Dakota | 334,566 |
| Rocky Mountain (R2) | Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, E. Wyoming | 250,618 |
| Southwestern (R3) | Arizona, New Mexico | 178,710 |
| Intermountain (R4) | S. Idaho, Nevada, Utah, W. Wyoming | 135,294 |
| Alaska (R10) | Alaska | 19,383 |
National total: 2,978,990 MBF/yr (FY2014-2023 average). Forest Service regions are administrative units, not states, and there is no Region 7.
Sources
Source: USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Cut-and-Sold reports; U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Western Oregon timber sales; U.S. GAO. Public domain (17 USC §105).