Arizona timber prices
What your standing timber is worth in Arizona — published stumpage values by species, and a free calculator that turns them into a figure for your own land.
Quick answer
These are stumpage prices for Arizona — what a landowner is paid for timber standing on the stump, before it is cut. The most recent published figure for ponderosa pine and mixed conifer sawtimber is $5–$23.49 per hundred cubic feet, reported by USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region for 2025. Delivered or mill log prices are a different and much higher number, because they include the cost of cutting and hauling the wood. TimberClear lists 23 Arizona foresters, buyers, loggers and mills who work this timber. What a particular stand brings is settled by a timber cruise, not by a price list.
If you own woodland in Arizona and you are wondering what it is worth, the number you want is the stumpage price — what a buyer pays you for timber while it is still standing. The most recent published figure for ponderosa pine and mixed conifer sawtimber in Arizona is $5–$23.49 per hundred cubic feet, reported by USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region for 2025. The full table is below.
Two prices get quoted in this business and they are not the same. Stumpage is what reaches you. Delivered, sometimes called the mill or log price, is what a mill pays once the wood has been cut, limbed and hauled to the yard — and the difference between them is the cost of doing all that work. Delivered prices are easier to find online, they are a good deal higher, and a landowner who mistakes one for the other walks into a sale expecting money that was never on the table. Everything on this page is stumpage.
One thing to know before you read the table. No agency publishes an Arizona stumpage price. These are the appraised standing-timber rates from recent western federal ponderosa pine sales.
Arizona stumpage prices by species
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, 2025
| Timber | per hundred cubic feet |
|---|---|
| Ponderosa pine and mixed conifer sawtimber | $5–$23.49 |
Source: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, 2025. These are stumpage prices — what a landowner is paid for standing timber.
What is an acre of timber worth in Arizona?
At these prices, one mature, normally stocked acre of mostly large trees, sold in one harvest, works out to roughly $170 to $790 for pine and other softwood. Smaller trees, a thinner stand or a partial cut bring less. It's a ballpark, not an appraisal.
What is your timber worth?
The table above is the price. The calculator turns it into a figure for your land — it asks your acreage, your species, how big the trees are and how thick they stand, then works the estimate from the prices above. About a minute, and no email needed to see it.
What are my trees worth in Arizona?
A price list cannot answer that on its own, and any site that tells you otherwise is guessing. Three things decide what an acre brings, and only you can see them: how big the trees are, how thickly they are growing, and what species they are.
Our free timber value calculator asks those three questions and works an estimate from Arizona's own published prices, the ones in the table on this page. It gives you a range rather than a single figure, because a range is the honest shape of the answer. It takes about a minute and it does not ask for your email to show you the number.
Is a timber sale realistic in Arizona?
About 87% of Arizona's harvest comes off national forest land and another 13% off tribal land, so private commercial sales are rare. What your trees are worth here comes from getting bids, not from a price list.
None of that means your trees are worthless. It means the sale is found rather than looked up — you want somebody who already works your area and knows where the wood goes. Tell us about your tract and we will go looking, and we track where the requests come from so we know which state to build out next.
How much forest Arizona has, and who owns it
Arizona has 19.1 million acres of forest land, most of it piñon-juniper woodland rather than commercial timber. 7.2 million acres nonindustrial private, across 22,452 owners.
Arizona has over 19 million acres of forest land but only 984 forest-based jobs, with forestry ranking 13th among the state's economic sectors — a very large forest with almost no commercial timber economy behind it.
Sources: apps.fs.usda.gov · apps.fs.usda.gov
Do I need a permit to cut timber in Arizona?
No statewide harvest permit or notification requirement for private land was identified. Arizona has no forest practices act, and the forest product permits the state advertises are for cutting on federal and state land rather than your own.
To be straight with you about how we know that: we looked and found no statewide requirement, which is not quite the same as confirming there is none. County ordinances and local road rules exist that no search of state law turns up. One call to the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management settles it before you cut.
Source: azleg.gov
Free help from Arizona's state forestry agency
The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. The Stewardship program helps forested landowners plan and prepare management plans, and runs forest health technical assistance and conservation easement purchases.
Worth taking. A state service forester does not bid on your timber and does not take a commission, so the advice comes without a stake in the outcome. They will not run your sale for you — that is a consulting forester's job — but they will tell you what you have before anybody makes you an offer.
Source: dffm.az.gov
Getting the best price for your timber
In a market this thin the first job is not squeezing the price, it is finding somebody who will come and cut at all. Haul distance decides most of it: wood that has to travel a long way to a mill loses its value on the truck, so an operator already working near you is worth more than a better price quoted from three counties over.
Before any of that, have the timber cruised. A cruise is a forester walking your land and measuring what is actually standing, so you are selling a known quantity instead of taking somebody's word for it.
Ask how the wood will be measured and how you will be able to check it. Whatever the unit, a sale you cannot verify afterwards is a sale you are taking on trust.
And put the terms in writing before anybody starts: what gets cut, what stays, what the land looks like when they leave, and when you get paid.
TimberClear lists 23 Arizona foresters, buyers, loggers and mills. Every listing is free and complete, including the phone number the business already publishes. We have not vetted, verified or endorsed any of them — the listing tells you who they are and what counties they cover, and the choosing is yours.
23 Arizona timber businesses
Foresters, buyers, loggers and mills, with the counties each one covers. Free and complete.
Compare states side by side
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Timber price questions in Arizona
What are timber prices in Arizona right now?
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region reports ponderosa pine and mixed conifer sawtimber at $5–$23.49 per hundred cubic feet for 2025. That is a stumpage price — what the landowner receives for standing timber. Prices for the other products in Arizona are listed on this page, and they move every quarter.
What is stumpage value?
Stumpage is the price paid for timber while it is still standing — the money that reaches the landowner. It is not the same as a delivered or mill log price, which is what a mill pays once the wood has been cut, limbed and hauled to the yard. The gap between the two is the cost of doing that work, and it is large. A delivered price quoted as though it were stumpage will make timber look worth far more than it is.
How much is an acre of timber worth in Arizona?
It depends on three things the price list cannot tell you: how big the trees are, how thickly they are growing, and whether they are sawtimber or pulpwood size. Sawtimber is worth several times what pulpwood is worth per ton. TimberClear's free timber value calculator asks those questions and works the estimate from Arizona's own published prices. It gives a range, never a single figure, because only a cruise settles what a stand is really worth.
Does Arizona publish its own timber prices?
No agency publishes an Arizona stumpage price. These are the appraised standing-timber rates from recent western federal ponderosa pine sales.
Do I need a permit to cut timber in Arizona?
No statewide harvest permit or notification requirement for private land was identified. Arizona has no forest practices act, and the forest product permits the state advertises are for cutting on federal and state land rather than your own. We found no statewide requirement, which is not the same as confirming there is none — county ordinances exist that a search of state law does not turn up, so check locally before you cut.
Who can help me manage my timber in Arizona for free?
The Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management. The Stewardship program helps forested landowners plan and prepare management plans, and runs forest health technical assistance and conservation easement purchases.
How do I get the best price for my timber in Arizona?
Get more than one offer. A sealed-bid sale run by a consulting forester puts buyers in competition with each other, and that is the single biggest lever a landowner has. Have the timber cruised first so you know what you are selling, and put the terms in writing before anybody starts cutting. TimberClear lists 23 Arizona businesses, free and complete, and has not vetted or endorsed any of them.