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Bad news: You may want to move it at least 6 feet away from the structure, because dead wood attracts wood destroying organisms, such as termites and fungus, that can go on to attack your house resulting in costly treatment and repairs.
Especially dead wood that doesn't have at least 6 inches separation from the soil, so you'll need to buy or build a rack as well.
None of that here. We're too far up north.
I'm farther north than 99% of humanity and we still have carpenter ants that get into woodpiles.
You know your area better than me, but that seems impossible to me. No little crawling things? When a tree falls in the forest, how long does it take to decompose?
Of course. I meant there are no termites here. But stuff eats wood that falls on the ground, for sure.
I stacked the wood there because there were already tiles on the ground that the previous owner clearly stacked his own wood on for the past 40 years. And there's a wooden shed at the back of the building that's also used to store wood. I found maybe a cord of wood in the shed when I bought the house, and another half-cord inside the garage - which is also a wooden building.
I'm not from the area, I'm from way down south, and I had the same concerns also with regard to stacking wood close to buildings. So I asked around, and I was told it's safe here - and actually quite common.
Wow, that's so foreign to me. I knocked down a live tree the other day because it was full of termites.
If you have trees in your area, something is decomposing them. It could be termites (subterranean if you're up north), carpenter ants, beetles, or fungus. I certainly wouldn't put it close to my structures unless I lived in an actual tundra, which from the pictures, you don't. You definitely have something up there eating all of that wood on the ground.
I live in northern WA and had a termite infestation in my house. They're all the way in BC as well.