Regions & forests
Oregon Department of Forestry timber sale prices
All 8 Oregon Department of Forestry districts in one view, with the green sawtimber price each publishes
Data through Aug 2026 · source last checked Aug 26, 2026 · page revised Aug 26, 2026
Cite
- Vol-weighted avg
About this data
- Source
- Washington DNR, Oregon Department of Forestry, Idaho Department of Lands, Montana DNRC, US Forest Service Region 6 and BLM Western Oregon timber auctions
- Series
- Average stumpage price and bid intensity
- Basis
- Stumpage; $/MBF (state) or $/CCF (federal)
- Geography
- Oregon Department of Forestry
- Unit
- $/MBF
- Calculation
- Monthly average of per-sale prices
- Last observation
- Aug 2026
- Update frequency
- Event-based
The Oregon Department of Forestry has sold 174 public timber sales on the tracked record across 8 districts, of which 122 publish a comparable green sawtimber rate. Those sales ran a volume-weighted $594/MBF (median $602/MBF) over 490,805 MBF, a median of 3 bidders per sale. 9 ODF sales are advertised and not yet auctioned. Prices are neutral: high is good for the seller, a cost to the buyer.
Oregon timber buyers paid a volume-weighted $594/MBF across 122 Department of Forestry sawtimber sales through Aug 15. Forest Grove District dominated the volume at $666/MBF across 158,227 MBF in 37 sales, while Klamath-Lake posted just $213/MBF on 10,171 MBF. Competition averaged 3 bidders per sale across all districts, with 9 additional ODF tracts advertised and awaiting auction.
| District | Priced sales | Volume-weighted | Median | Volume sold | Median bidders | Latest priced result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Grove District | 37 | $666/MBF | $664/MBF | 158,227 MBF | 4 | Aug 21, 2026 |
| Tillamook District | 17 | $504/MBF | $491/MBF | 106,744 MBF | 2 | Jun 18, 2026 |
| Astoria District | 18 | $562/MBF | $609/MBF | 99,520 MBF | 2 | Jul 21, 2026 |
| North Cascade District | 12 | $650/MBF | $677/MBF | 39,925 MBF | 6 | Aug 20, 2026 |
| Western Lane District | 10 | $719/MBF | $698/MBF | 34,548 MBF | 5.5 | Jul 13, 2026 |
| West Oregon District | 16 | $572/MBF | $586/MBF | 32,793 MBF | 3 | Aug 20, 2026 |
| Klamath-Lake District | 7 | $213/MBF | $174/MBF | 10,171 MBF | 4 | May 18, 2026 |
| Southwest Oregon District | 5 | $515/MBF | $508/MBF | 8,877 MBF | 2 | Oct 16, 2024 (not recently priced) |
Previous weeks
Week of Jul 15, 2026
The Oregon Department of Forestry's green sawtimber sales averaged $592/MBF volume-weighted across its 8 districts, ranging from $504/MBF in Tillamook to $719/MBF in Western Lane, at a median of 3 bidders per sale.
An earlier week
Forest Grove District's Oregon Department of Forestry timber averaged $668/MBF across 36 priced sales, most recently on Jul 24, 2026. Western Lane District led all eight ODF districts at $719/MBF, while the statewide volume-weighted average across 119 priced sales ran $592/MBF, with Klamath-Lake the softest at $213/MBF. Twenty-one sales are advertised and awaiting auction.
An earlier week
Western Lane District prices highest at $719/MBF with 5.5 median bidders per sale, running well above the statewide volume-weighted $631/MBF across all tracked ODF sales. Klamath-Lake sits far lower at $213/MBF with lighter bidder intensity at 4 median bidders. Forest Grove has the broadest track record with 36 priced sales at $668/MBF (median $665/MBF), anchoring the field with consistent competition.
About Oregon Department of Forestry timber sale prices
The Oregon Department of Forestry sells state-forest timber through district offices, and each district runs its own auctions and posts its own results. This page gathers every ODF district this site tracks into one table so the Oregon program can be read at the agency level, then hands off to each district's own page for the sale-by-sale record. Volumes are in thousand board feet (MBF), the state unit, and are never blended with the federal CCF sales elsewhere on this site.
Two columns you would expect are deliberately absent. There is no premium over the appraised minimum, because ODF's published results report the winning bid and not the minimum the sale was advertised at, so the figure cannot be computed for a single Oregon sale, let alone averaged. Bidder count is the competitive read Oregon does publish, on every sold sale, so that is the column here instead. And there is no month-over-month delta table, because an agency total that ranked beside its own districts would be counting the same sales twice. How an appraised minimum is set in the first place, in Oregon and at the other agencies, is covered in how stumpage is appraised.
A district is listed once it has closed a sale that publishes a single comparable green sawtimber rate. An award that spans several species groups, or one scaled rather than sold on a lump-sum rate, reports a whole-sale winning total with no derivable dollars per MBF, and this site refuses to guess one. 1 further district has sold timber on the tracked record without publishing such a rate, so it does not appear above. A district whose newest comparable rate has fallen outside the last 12 months is labelled "not recently priced" in its latest-result cell: sales are still closing there, what has paused is the publication of a single rate. Oregon sales that have been noticed but not yet auctioned sit on the upcoming timber auctions calendar, and every agency's results rank together on the public timber board. Source: Oregon Department of Forestry.
Common questions
What are timber prices in Oregon right now?
Oregon Department of Forestry sales have run a volume-weighted $594/MBF for green sawtimber across the tracked record, with a median of $602/MBF. That is the state-forest auction market. The table above breaks it out by district, and each district page carries its sales one by one.
Is this the same as log prices in Oregon?
No, and the difference is large. These are stumpage prices: what a buyer paid for standing timber at a state auction, before it is cut, yarded or hauled. A log price is what a mill pays for logs delivered to its gate, which includes all of that work. What is stumpage explains where the two sit relative to each other.
Does this cover federal timber sales in Oregon?
No. This page is the Oregon Department of Forestry's state-forest program. Federal sales run on their own programs and units, and this site never blends the state's MBF volumes with federal CCF sales. The public timber board ranks every agency's results together.