Golden Fire Wood Pellets
Premium softwood fuel – 100% Douglas Fir
Golden Fire Wood Pellets are made entirely from Douglas Fir, with no binders, no plastics, and no additives. They’re produced using ultra-low moisture feedstock, which means more of the energy goes into heating your space rather than evaporating water.
Typical specs: approximately 8,500–8,700 BTUs per pound and ash content under 0.25% (fines less than 0.5%). They’re certified PFI premium grade and designed to give you hot, efficient performance with minimal clean-up.
In the U.S., you’ll find Golden Fire available through retailers like Lowe’s and regional lumber/home-supply stores. While the brand originates on the West Coast (Oregon), many suppliers stock it nationwide, so it’s accessible in states across the continental U.S.
In short: if your pellet stove handles softwood pellets well and you’re looking for high BTU output and low ash from a clean-burning fuel, Golden Fire is a strong contender.
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Golden Fire Wood Pellets Review – 2025/2026 Season
Golden Fire Wood Pellets are a premium softwood heating pellet made from 100% Douglas Fir with no binders, glues, or additives, designed for efficient and high-output combustion in residential pellet stoves and boilers. These pellets feature very high heat output (approximately 8,500–8,700 BTU per pound) and ultra-low ash content (typically < 0.5%), resulting in clean burns and reduced stove maintenance. With low moisture content and PFI premium grade production, Golden Fire pellets deliver consistent, hot heat for home heating.
Pros
- almost no fines which is impressive coming from the west coast by rail
- Low – low ash
- super heat output (cheap burn pots could be damaged)
- beefy bags
Cons
- Cost (east coast connoisseur pellets)
66 Responses
When I cleaned my augur it was full of sawdust from the bags of Golden Fire which we have used for 23 years. They are 80 dollars a ton more than Greentree pellets from the Placerville, CA fruit grower. We changed due to price and poor performance of the pellets from 2021. Filthy glass every day and cleaning much more often.
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Once good, now crap
Have been using Golden Fire pellets for 1 years no and they have always been great. No problems whatsoever.
This year I have horrible clinkers on a near daily basis, tons of ash. Is there a rating lower than 1?
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Golden Fire leave a LOT more ash than Bear Mountain.
We have used Bear Mountain Pellets for 22 years and have absolutely love the product – heats well with little ash. Wilco substituted Golden Fire wood pellets for the Bear Mountain pellets in our last purchase. I do not notice an increase in heat produced, but the Gold Fire pellets leave behind a LOT more ash in our Austroflamm wood pellet stove. We ran our pellet stove for approximately 3 days and had 10 days worth of our usual ash. We won’t be purchasing Golden Fire again.
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What happened in 2021?
Until this winter 2021-2022 we loved loved loved using golden fire pellets. Always had a nice clean burning hot fire. No longer! This years bags are total trash, the bags are flimsy, we could barely unload them without taping the bag together. Pellets everywhere. We even returned some to the store for replacement. We should have returned the whole ton. The pellets themselves have disintegrated, are full of sand and dirt. We must clean our stove at least once a day, sometimes twice. Used to be weekly. The giant clinkers even have melted glass in
them! We’ve used golden fire pellets for 30 years, I’ll find another product next year.
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your pellets are terrible so much ash it plugs up my pellet stove bought them in the and were fine will not buy them again bought another brand and work just fine
Terrible
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