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Heating With Pellets in Indiana: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Indiana: What a Winter Takes

Heating with pellets in central Indiana means feeding a stove for roughly eight months a year, with the coldest stretch landing in January.

Heating With Pellets in Illinois: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Illinois: What a Winter Takes

Chicago O’Hare logs about 5,974 heating degree days a year, which places central and northern Illinois among the colder heating markets in the Midwest.

Heating With Pellets in Idaho: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Idaho: What a Winter Takes

Heating an Idaho home with pellets means budgeting for a long, genuinely cold season rather than a light one, buying two to three tons of fuel before the…

Heating With Pellets in Hawaii: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Hawaii: What a Winter Takes

At Honolulu International Airport, NOAA’s 30-year climate normal shows zero heating degree days a year and mean temperatures above 65 F in every single…

Heating With Pellets in Georgia: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Georgia: What a Winter Takes

A Georgia winter doesn’t ask much of a pellet stove, at least by national standards.

Heating With Pellets in Florida: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Florida: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in Florida is almost never the main heat source. With roughly 1,228 heating degree days a year at the Jacksonville reference station, the…

Heating With Pellets in Delaware: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Delaware: What a Winter Takes

A pellet stove in Delaware is doing real work, not just providing ambiance. The reference climate station in Wilmington logs enough heating degree days…

Heating With Pellets in Connecticut: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Connecticut: What a Winter Takes

A Connecticut winter runs long before it runs brutal. The state logs about 5,140 heating degree days a year at the Bridgeport reference station, and the…

Heating With Pellets in Colorado: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in Colorado: What a Winter Takes

Denver’s reference station logs about 5,862 heating degree days a year, a total that puts pellet heating in Colorado closer to real furnace-level work…

Heating With Pellets in California: What a Winter Takes

Heating With Pellets in California: What a Winter Takes

In Los Angeles and most of coastal California, a pellet stove earns its keep as comfort heat, not as the furnace replacement it might be in Denver or…

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