Historic Prices

Line chart: Pine sawtimber stumpage prices 2015–2024 for Eastern NC, Western NC, Southeast-wide.
Historic annual price data for standing timber from 1976-2025 and for timber delivered to mills from 1988-2025 for North Carolina are reported for four timber product categories (pine sawtimber and pulpwood, and mixed hardwood sawtimber and pulpwood) for Western North Carolina, Eastern North Carolina, State of North Carolina and the Southeast United States.  The price data are reported as average market prices. Historic price data for standing timber across North Carolina is available from Forest-2-Market and TImber Mart-South. The data from Forest-2-Market is in the table below and is reported every quarter from the third quarter of 2005 to the fourth quarter of 2014.  The data includes average prices by region for pine and hardwood sawtimber, pine chip-n-saw, pine and hardwood pulpwood, red and white oak sawtimber, and yellow poplar sawtimber. This information is available in PDF file format and is available free for downloading. A free PDF reader can be downloaded from Adobe. The data from Timber Mart-South is available on our Quarterly Price Reports page and covers every quarter from the first quarter of 2015 to the present. The North Carolina Standing Timber Price Report provides state-wide average prices for standing timber (stumpage) for pine, oak, and mixed hardwood sawtimber, pine chip-n-saw, and pine and hardwood pulpwood.  These reports are available in PDF file format and are available free for downloading.

Forest-2-Market Quarterly Price Reports

Year Quarters
2005 n/a n/a 3rd 4th
2006 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2007 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2008 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2009 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2010 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2011 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2012 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2013 1st 2nd 3rd 4th
2014 1st 2nd 3rd 4th