At home, because I burn in an airtight insert with a clear glass door, not a more industrial burner, I only burn wood that has been cut and split for 1+ full years.

I'm also lucky enough that I have a very generously sized 2 car garage attached to the house, it's big enough that I can stack 4 full (bush) cords of wood inside and still put 2 cars in no problem, although I rarely have more than 2.5 cords in there.

Since with a fire burning almost every day (when we're there) from 8am till 8pm we only go through a little under a full cord, I've always got lots of really dry wood on hand.

What I do is in the spring or summer, move the 'leftover' wood from the previous winters cord which was in a single straight row 5' high along one of two side walls to a small stack near the door, then put the 'fresh' wood in that location. Then that fall I burn the wood stacked against the opposite wall.

I never have a moisture or rotted wood problem since the garage is well-ventilated and the door is open a lot anyways.

At the farm the wood is all just stacked in boxes made from 1" x 3" on top of pallets. Those bins full of wood are stacked on the raised floor of a shed which has no walls, just a tin roof with wide overhangs like Harvey mentioned. As wood is required, it is moved, box at a time, by means of forks on FEL of a tractor to near the door or into the garage of whichever building needs the wood. Even there though the wood is always more than a year old before it's burnt.

Best of luck.

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