SeasonWood: Firewood Drying

Firewood takes months to become firewood. You split it, you stack it, and then you wait: six months for pine, a year for ash, two or three years for the dense stuff. By the time the cold snap hits you are guessing which stack is ready, and burning green wood means a smoky fire, wasted heat and a dirty flue.

SeasonWood keeps track of the waiting. Log each stack the day you build it, and the app tells you when that wood should be ready to burn, and which stack to reach for first.

BUILT AROUND YOUR CLIMATE, NOT A GENERIC CHART
A load of hardwood dries very differently in Darwin than it does in the Central Highlands. SeasonWood pulls several years of weather history for your location, works out how much drying actually happens in each month of the year, and stretches or shortens the estimate to match. Wood stacked heading into a cold, damp winter barely moves until spring, and the app knows that.

EVERY STACK, EVERY DETAIL
- Species, from fast-drying pine and poplar to slow, dense hardwood
- The date you split it, and how big you split it
- Covered on top, wrapped, or open to the weather
- Single row, double row or a heap, because airflow changes everything
- Sun or shade, up on pallets or down on the ground

Each of these shifts the estimate, and the app shows you exactly how. Open any stack and you see the whole calculation: base time for the species, then the adjustment for your climate, your stacking and your split size. No black box.

IF YOU OWN A MOISTURE METER
Take a reading whenever you like and log it. After a couple of readings SeasonWood learns how fast that particular stack is really drying and corrects its own forecast. If a reading already shows the wood is dry, the measurement wins, because a number beats a prediction. And if you do not own a meter, everything still works.

WHAT YOU GET
- Progress ring and estimated ready date for every stack
- Sorted so the stack that becomes usable first sits at the top
- A drying curve showing estimated moisture over time, with your readings marked
- Home Screen widgets: how many stacks are ready right now
- Optional reminders when a stack comes ready, and before the heating season
- Volume in cubic metres, stère, cords or face cords
- Works offline once your climate data is stored
- No account, no sign-up. Your stacks stay on your device

FOR ANYONE WHO BURNS WOOD
Slow combustion heater and open fireplace owners planning the winter. Anyone on acreage rotating a few years of hardwood. Backyard fire pits, pizza ovens, smokers and camp cooking, where dry wood is the difference between a fire and a smoke machine.

These are estimates for planning, based on published seasoning times and local climate data. Real stacks vary with how they are built, where they sit, the weather that actually turns up and the wood itself. SeasonWood is not a safety instrument and does not certify that wood is safe to burn. The 20% figure is a widely used guideline, and a moisture meter is the way to confirm it.