West Virginia –
timber data
Forest inventory for West Virginia from the USDA Forest Service FIA: standing live volume, forest and timberland area, growth and removals, and leading species. Inventory, not price — West Virginia has no single published timber price.
West Virginia forest profile
West Virginia has about 11,871,810 acres of forest land, of which roughly 11,556,574 acres is timberland (forest that can grow at least 20 cu ft/acre/yr of industrial wood and is not reserved). Standing live volume is about 43.6 billion cubic feet, which ranks West Virginia 13 of the 19 states covered on this site. It sits in the Appalachia & Central region.
Net annual growth is about 1,007 million cu ft/yr against removals of 200 million cu ft/yr and mortality of 293 million cu ft/yr — growth comfortably exceeds removals. Leading species: yellow-poplar, red maple, chestnut oak. Source: USDA Forest Service FIA – West Virginia.
Volume = sound total-stem bark and wood volume of live trees at least 5 inches in diameter on forest land (2024 FIA methodology). Growth, removals and mortality are in million cubic feet per year on forest land. Removals include harvest cutting plus land-use and protocol change. These are inventory measures, not prices.
There is no official West Virginia timber price. In practice a sale is priced two ways: stumpage (standing timber "on the stump", before cutting) and delivered or roadside (stumpage plus harvesting and hauling). Prices are usually quoted in $/MBF (thousand board feet) for sawtimber or $/ton for pulpwood and chip-n-saw, and the board-foot figure depends on the log rule (Doyle, Scribner or International 1/4). Because these commercial (private-market) series are licence-restricted, we do not publish a number. Get a current price from your forester, consultant or mill, then use the calculator to estimate value. For federal national-forest timber-sale prices, see our federal timber prices page (public-domain USFS data, with the Forest Service's caveat). See the glossary for the terms.
Standing live volume – all states
West Virginia highlighted. Billion cu ft, USDA Forest Service FIA.