Lumber Air Dry Rates

Approximate number of days to air-dry green 1″ lumber to 20{ecddf9adde44d27d9b15adaf662c1dc75823d7a27d1c0a3dca6c68c19970fb5c} M.C.

SOFTWOODS

HARDWOODS

SPECIES

DAYS

SPECIES

DAYS

Baldcypress

100-300

Alder

20-180

Douglas Fir:

Ash

60-200

Coast

20-200

Aspen:

Interior North

20-180

Bigtooth

50-150

Interior South

10-100

Quaking

50-150

Interior West

20-120

Basswood

40-150

Hemlock:

Beech, American

70-200

Eastern

90-200

Birch:

Western

60-200

Yellow

70-200

Western Larch

60-120

Butternut

60-200

Pine:

Cherry, Black

70-200

Eastern White

60-200

Cottonwood

60-150

Jack

40-200

Elm

60-150

Lodgepole

15-150

Hackberry

30-150

Ponderosa

15-150

Hickory

60-200

Red

40-200

Magnolia

40-150

Southern Pine:

Maple:

Loblolly

30-150

Biglead

60-180

Longleaf

30-150

Red

30-120

Shortleaf

30-150

Silver

30-120

Slash

30-150

Sugar

50-200

Sugar Pine:

Oak:

Light

15-90

Northern Red

70-200

Sinker

45-200

Northern White

80-250

Western White

15-150

Southern Red

100-300

Redwood:

Southern White

120-320

Light

60-185

Pecan

60-200

Sinker

200-365

Poplar, Yellow

40-150

Spruce:

Sweetgum:

Engelmann

20-120

Heartwood

70-300

Red

30-120

Sapwood

60-200

Sitka

40-150

Sycamore, American

30-150

White

30-120

Tanoak

180-365

Tupelo

70-200

Walnut, Black

70-200

Willow, Black

30-150