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Heating With Pellets in Minnesota: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Minnesota: What a Winter Takes

Minneapolis logs roughly 7,399 heating degree days a year, one of the highest totals of any major U.S. metro.

Heating With Pellets in Michigan: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Michigan: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in Michigan works for its keep. Between the first cool nights of September and the last chilly mornings of May, the state’s furnaces and…

Heating With Pellets in Massachusetts: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Massachusetts: What a Winter Takes

Massachusetts winters put pellet stoves to real work. Boston averages roughly 5,545 heating degree days a year and a heating season that runs about eight…

Heating With Pellets in Maryland: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Maryland: What a Winter Takes

A Maryland winter runs long before it runs brutal: heating demand stretches from October through May, but the real question for a pellet stove is how…

Heating With Pellets in Manitoba: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Manitoba: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in Manitoba answers to Winnipeg Richardson Int’l A’s climate normals: about 5,648 heating degree days below 18°C every year, over a…

Heating With Pellets in Maine: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Maine: What a Winter Takes

Maine burns through nearly 6,800 heating degree days a year at the Portland reference station, one of the highest totals in the Northeast.

Heating With Pellets in Louisiana: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Louisiana: What a Winter Takes

In Louisiana, a pellet stove is best understood as supplemental comfort heat, not a furnace replacement.

Heating With Pellets in Kentucky: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Kentucky: What a Winter Takes

Kentucky sits in that in-between zone where a pellet stove earns its keep without needing to carry the whole house.

Heating With Pellets in Kansas: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Kansas: What a Winter Takes

Wichita’s weather station logs 4,414 heating degree days a year, the number that decides how much a pellet stove has to work here from October through May.

Heating With Pellets in Iowa: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Iowa: What a Winter Takes

A furnace stays the backbone of home heating in Iowa, and the numbers explain why: this is a state where the mercury spends eight months below the point…

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