Lumber & Panel Price Tracker
Price trends for the wood that frames and sheathes the job — softwood framing lumber, plywood, and OSB — with 30-day and year-over-year change, a simple outlook, and a translation into the units you actually buy: a 2×4 stud and a 4×8 sheet. Sourced from free government data (BLS Producer Price Indices via FRED).
Price History & Outlook
Solid = stored history · dashed = trend outlook (not a guarantee)
Framing Lumber · index · source: BLS PPI via FRED · latest 2026-05-01
What this means on the job
Wood price indices translated into the units you buy. These are rough estimates — each unit is scaled from an anchor price by how far its index has moved, directional, not quotes.
Data & forecast notes
- Sources: all series are Bureau of Labor Statistics Producer Price Indices, pulled from the Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) API — softwood lumber, plywood, and the reconstituted-wood (OSB) industry index. Each is monthly with a 1–2 month publication lag.
- These are indices, not dollar prices — they show the relative trend of producer wood prices (1982 = 100, except the OSB industry index), not a $/unit figure. There is no free government $/board-foot or $/sheet feed.
- The outlook is an extrapolation, not a guarantee — a simple trend projection from recent history, for planning context only. Lumber is famously volatile, so treat the direction loosely.
- Per-stud and per-sheet costs are estimates anchored to a recent retail price and scaled by the index. Verify against real quotes before relying on them.
- This page is informational and not financial or purchasing advice.
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