Heating with wood is romantic until you do the cost-per-BTU math. Here is how the firewood ledger actually pencils out in a Zone 5 winter, one of the seasonal cost questions behind what I write about.
Cord math
Price a cord delivered, or price your chainsaw, gas, bar oil, and the weekends it takes to cut and split your own. Both are real costs, only one shows up on a receipt.
Compare on heat, not on price
Convert everything to dollars per million BTU and compare wood against propane and electric. The Penn State Extension breakdown of whether wood heat pays off is a solid starting point, and the EPA Burn Wise notes on appliance efficiency explain why a certified stove can cut firewood use by up to a third. Seasoned hardwood usually wins, if you have a source and the time.
None of this replaces running your own numbers, which is the whole point of how I do this.