cedar

save that for your outside fire pit. At very best it is a fast burning shoulder season wood. Even better kindling

I mix red cedar (juniper) and eastern white cedar in with the pine.
Burns about the same.
I don't have any white cedar I want to cut any more and red cedar tends to die off as the pines grow faster and block it from the sun.
Most of the red cedars I have aren't worth cutting up.

Well if you are in PA, you can't avoid the local cedar. They grow like weeds around here, and except for trimming out the branches, a little drying, you have great fire starters. Low on BTU's, and beware when you open the stove, the fireworks begin. Many years, I struggled through burning mostly cedar.

I burn some eastern white cedar . . . but it's mostly for kindling . . . smells nice when cut and split . . . but burns up fast . . . honestly, best use for it would be for use as kindling . . . not saying you can't use it to heat your home though -- maybe use this for the shoulder season fires when you just need a quick, hot fire without a lot of burn time.

Also would be really great to mix with some of that not so well seasoned wood.

Just in case any western folks are reading this thread. Western Red Cedar is not the same as what they call cedar over on the right side. Our red cedar is actually a pretty dang good wood to burn with btu/cord between pine and fir somewhere. Splits easy, dries well, smells good, no slivers, and makes nice sparks. Ours also grows several feet thick and in wet areas so when one goes down there is lots of wood to not let go to waste.

Backwoods Savage said:

Also would be really great to mix with some of that not so well seasoned wood.

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This is what I would do with the cedar as well. I do have some cedar that I use mostly for kindling - got a load of slabs from my neighbor's saw mill. The slabs burn hot and fast so getting the fire started is all I use it for inside. I really like the way it smells so I burn a bit more of it outside for campfires.