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Market Information Questions & HPBA Responses

(As of December 2009)

1. A. What percentage of households in the U.S. heat with hearth appliances?

HPBA cannot forecast the number of households in the United States that heat with 

hearth appliances. There are approximately 110 million households in the U.S. and 

roughly 53% own a fireplace/stove. 17% of those households own only a stove. 

Households that own only a stove are broken down into the following categories.

Wood stove: 47%

Gas stove: 31%

Pellet stove: 11%

Other: 11%

Attachment #1 provides more detail.

1. B. What is the breakdown for the number of units used in the U.S.?

There is no tracking system in place to estimate the number of units in use in the U.S., 

but we can offer the number of units shipped by our manufacturers. We track the 

following categories (2008 shipment data):

Wood Stoves: 127,124

Pellet Stoves: 118,401

Fireplace Inserts: 76,539 (wood & pellet)

1.C. What is the breakdown for the number of units used per region in the U.S.?

HPBA does not know how many units were used in each region. Regional information 

regarding shipped units is not tracked due to a fiduciary obligation of confidentiality to our 

members and affiliates.

2.A. How many units of each appliance were sold last year, 5 years, 10 years?

HPBA does not track number of units sold. We collect shipments, not sales numbers. 

2008 shipments:

Wood Stoves: 127,124

Pellet Stoves: 118,401

Fireplace Inserts: 76,539

Factory Built Wood Fireplaces: 164,802

2004-2008 shipments:

Wood Stoves: 480,648
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Pellet Stoves: 422,538

Fireplace Inserts: 273,145

Factory Built Wood Fireplaces: 1,624,893

1999-2008 shipments:

Wood Stoves: 987,554

Pellet Stoves: 573,322

Fireplace Inserts: 420,751

Factory Built Wood Fireplaces: 4,086,107

2.B. What is the breakdown for the number of units sold per region in the U.S.?

Due to our obligations to member confidentiality we can only offer pellet shipments per 

region.

1999-2008 Pellet Stoves:

West: 124,332

(AK, CA, HI, OR, WA, AZ, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, UT, WY)

Central: 156,542

(AR, IA, KS, LA, MN, MO, NE, ND, OK, SD, TX, IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)

East: 246,624

(CT, DE, MA, ME, NH, NJ, NY, PA, RI, VT, AL, DC, FL, GA, KY, MD, MS, NC, SC, TN, 

VA, WV)

3.A. What is the expected market growth rate for each wood heating device (1,5,10 years)?

We do not produce forecasts or projections.

3.B. What has been the market growth rate for each wood heating device over the past 20 

years?

We do not produce forecasts or projections.

4.A. How many manufacturers are in the HPBA? Who are the manufacturers? How many 

manufacturers are in each product category? Who are the manufacturers in each product 

category?

HPBA manufacturers: 314

Who are the manufacturers: Please see Attachment #2

BBQ: 52

Hearth: 242

Patio: 20
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4.B. Of the wood heating devices sold in the U.S., what percentage is manufactured in 

Canada? In other countries?

HPBA does not have statistical information on where products were manufactured. 

4.C. Of HPBA members, how many are small businesses according to SBA size 

standards?

HPBA has no statistical data on business size. 

4.D. What percentage manufacture products that are not wood heating appliances and of 

these, what percentage of their business results from these other products?

HPBA does not have the data to produce an answer.

4.E. How many companies have less than 5 employees?

HPBA does not have the data to produce an answer.

5.A. What type of wood fuel is sold/ used the most by region? What is the expected market 

growth rate for types of wood fuel? 

HPBA does not forecast or predict industry and does not track the purchase percentage 

of wood fuel. 

6.A. What is the average price of each appliance? Do you expect prices to decrease/ 

increase/ remain for each product category? 

HPBA only has the average prices a retailer pays a manufacturer for a product (2007-

2008). These costs do not include labor or installation costs. 

Factory Built Fireplaces: $324.12

Freestanding Stoves (Wood): $866.42

Freestanding Stoves (Pellet): $1348.30

Fireplace Inserts (Exempt-Wood): $1427.66

Fireplace Inserts (Pellet): $1692.35

6.B. How do you think a tighter emissions number will affect the prices of each product 

category?

HPBA does not know. 

6.C. What percentage of total price can be directly attributed to meeting an emissions 

standard?

HPBA does not know. 

6.D. What are the average R&D costs of developing units that meet tighter emission limits?

HPBA does not know.