% of heating season

I'm in southern NH, and I plan for having to run the pellet stove thru April 1st... I burn about a bag per day, so it's easy to count the bag remaining and have an estimate of how many days I have left.

How many pellets did you start with? At a bag per day, I bought 3tons (150 bags) for the season, which should put me into April since I started in mid Nov.

I ran my pellet stove throughout all of April last year (we had some really cold days),and may have even had it going a day or three in May, so it's really tough to pin it down. Usually, once you get into late March, you can at least count on using fewer pellets, as it's unlikely you'll have to have your stove cranked. Like you, I was about 65% (almost three full ton out of the five I had purchased for the season) of the way through my stash. Because any sort of math makes my head explode, I didn't bother pulling out the abacus to formulate a game plan. Given that it's only mid-January, I thought it's more likely than not that my remaining two ton (plus 8 bags) wasn't going to get me through to April. Because of that, I decided to run off to Home Depot and grab another ton while it was warm last Sunday.

first year up here i shut it down april 15th.
yeah, that was a mistake.
now i just wait till june 1st no matter what.

Today (January 15th) is considered the midpoint of meteorological winter so our average lows have pretty much reached their lowest. It's kind of an oversimplification but works well enough for me for estimating pellet usage.

I live in Central Mass, and average between 2 1/2 to 3 tons annually. Last year was a relatively average year, with almost exactly 2 1/2 tons burned. The lowest I've gone is just under 2 tons. A couple of years ago during the really cold/snowy winter, I used 3 1/2. I always have 3 1/2 tons to start the season, and burn any prior year left over first.

At this point, I've burned through 1 1/2 tons, and I fully expect to break into my last full pallet before the season is out. This has been a colder winter so far, so I expect to use at least 3 tons before the season is out.

If you are already through 65% of your stash, I would keep an eye out on some additional pellets to supplement what you have. As I recently saw in one of the other posts here, you should have about 1/2 of your stock remaining by Candlemas day (Feb 2nd this year). So you may be needing more before the year is out.

Plus, as long as you store the pellets properly, there is no issue with having extra and using it next year.

Good luck!

I'm gonna run out too. Gonna burn close to 5+ ton this season

End of January is the midpoint I've always used.

I deal with a winter in a couple of ways at work and I have always considered jan. 15 the mid point as far as equipment, snow storage capacity, overtime and mothballed equipment maintenance. I'm with jp on this one. I always plan on having half a ton to start next heating season. I'm on track to be with in 10 bags of that. Last weeks extreme cold was offset by this weeks thaw here in So. New Hampshire.

Here in Connecticut I did 2 tons last year but that was with a stove that didn't heat well. I stopped end of March.I got 3 tons this year and just did one. So hopefully the remanding 2 tons gets me by.

1st year 3 tons. We didn't install stove until after Xmas

2nd year 6 tons and we were still using it in June

I am planning on 6 tons again, maybe a tad more

Last year, because it was so warm, we did one ton, plus or minus. This year we'll be knocking on the door of two tons. Our mid point is the end of January too.

This year has seemed to have been colder and I average about 3 tons for the season over the last 7 years. Key for me is a small house, well insulated and running on a thermostat. With temps in upper 30s-40s+, I'm well under a bag a day. Was a little over a bag a day during the vortex. Right now on bag 63 for the 2013-14 season. I'm a self confessed pellet pig with almost 3 tons of Somersets/Barefoots in reserve and will only burn them below 15 degrees. Since the beginning of October, knocked off 37 bags of MWP, 10 of the Somersets/Barefoots and 15 bags of Stove Chow. For the next part of winter, I have the Sets/BF stash, the other 35 bags of SC, 9 bags of MWP for the warmer days and a fresh new ton of FSU, I am picking up this weekend.

Hope you are including the weather we had in mid-May last year.