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# South Puget Sound Region timber sale prices

Volume-weighted green sawtimber price and bid intensity across 14 sold South Puget Sound Region sales

_Data through Aug 2026 · source last checked Aug 30, 2026 · page revised Aug 30, 2026_

> Green sawtimber in the South Puget Sound Region ran a median +40% over minimum across 14 sold sales, a volume-weighted average of $420/MBF (median $430/MBF, simple average $424/MBF), 59,129 MBF sold in total, a median of 3 bidders per sale. 1 salvage/deck/product sale in the region are tracked separately, not blended in. Prices are neutral: high is good for the seller, a cost to the buyer.

Green sawtimber in the South Puget Sound Region sold at $420/MBF volume-weighted average across 14 sales, running median +40 percent premium over minimum on a median of 3 bidders per sale. Month over month, prices climbed 63.4 percent to $474/MBF from $290/MBF, driven by sharpened bid competition in recent auctions.

## The numbers

| Period | Current | Prior | Change |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Month over month | $474/MBF | $290/MBF | +63.4% |

## About South Puget Sound Region timber sale prices

This page rolls up GREEN SAWTIMBER auctions in the South Puget Sound Region, standing timber sold on a real appraised minimum, into a volume-weighted monthly average price per thousand board feet (MBF), its median sale price, its premium over the appraised minimum, and its bid intensity. Salvage, deck, stewardship and product sales price on token minimums, so they are excluded from these figures and reported separately on the board rather than blended in. Volumes are reported in MBF. Everything here is a completed auction. Sales that have been noticed but not yet sold, in this region and everywhere else the site covers, sit on the [upcoming timber auctions calendar](/calendar/upcoming) with their auction date, offered volume and appraised minimum. Source: Washington DNR.

## 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: South Puget Sound Region
- Unit: $/MBF
- Calculation period: Monthly average of per-sale prices
- Last observation: Aug 2026
- Update frequency: Event-based

## Official sources
- [WA DNR results psl_ts_2608_results.pdf](https://dnr.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2026-08/psl_ts_2608_results.pdf)
- [WA DNR results psl_ts_2607_results.pdf](https://dnr.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2026-07/psl_ts_2607_results.pdf)
- [WA DNR results psl_ts_2606_results.pdf](https://dnr.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2026-06/psl_ts_2606_results.pdf)
- [WA DNR results psl_ts_2604_results.pdf](https://dnr.wa.gov/sites/default/files/2026-04/psl_ts_2604_results.pdf)

## Download the data
- [Download South Puget Sound Region results (CSV)](https://stumpage.news/data/timber/region-wadnr-south-puget-sound.csv)

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