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Heating With Pellets in New Mexico: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in New Mexico: What a Winter Takes

Albuquerque Intl AP, the reference weather station for central New Mexico, logs about 3,996 heating degree days a year against a 65 F base, alongside…

Heating With Pellets in New Jersey: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in New Jersey: What a Winter Takes

New Jersey burns through roughly 4,701 heating degree days a year at the Newark reference station, and that number does the real work of answering how…

Heating With Pellets in New Hampshire: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in New Hampshire: What a Winter Takes

A New Hampshire winter isn’t mild, and it isn’t short either. For most households here, a pellet stove is doing real work from September through May, not…

Heating With Pellets in Newfoundland and Labrador: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Newfoundland and Labrador: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in Newfoundland and Labrador is heating almost every day of the year, not just through a cold snap in January.

Heating With Pellets in New Brunswick: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in New Brunswick: What a Winter Takes

In and around Moncton, a pellet stove burns through roughly 2.5 to 4 tons of fuel over a typical winter for a house that leans on it as a main heat…

Heating With Pellets in Nevada: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Nevada: What a Winter Takes

Nevada’s heating season runs about five months, but the reference station in Las Vegas logs only around 1,836 heating degree days a year.

Heating With Pellets in Nebraska: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Nebraska: What a Winter Takes

Nebraska pellet stove owners burn through fuel on a schedule dictated by one number: 5,833 heating degree days a year at Omaha’s reference station.

Heating With Pellets in Montana: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Montana: What a Winter Takes

A Montana winter run on pellets is a long, cold haul rather than a quick top-up between mild days.

Heating With Pellets in Missouri: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Missouri: What a Winter Takes

A Missouri winter asks a lot of a pellet stove: about 5,071 heating degree days a year at the Kansas City reference station, spread across roughly eight…

Heating With Pellets in Mississippi: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Mississippi: What a Winter Takes

In Jackson, Mississippi averages about 2,222 heating degree days a year, one of the lowest totals in the country outside the Deep South and Florida.

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