One of the main benefits to using a pellet stove is convenience. Pellet stove owners don't have to worry about collecting firewood and stoking a flame. Simply pour the pellets into the hopper, and the rest takes care of itself.

Pellet stoves automatically feed the pellets into the burning chamber at measured rates according to your desired temperature. This thermostatic control means you won't have to worry about getting up in the middle of the night to add logs or deal with coming home to a cold house. Pellet stoves also don't experience the same extreme temperature fluctuations that wood stoves can produce.

Pellet stoves are more efficient than traditional wood heat thanks to a smaller combustion chamber. This smaller chamber ensures a controlled amount of air for more complete combustion, resulting in more heat and fewer emissions. For these reasons, pellet burning stoves are some of the cleanest heating appliances available.

Pellet stoves are easier to keep clean than traditional wood-burning stoves. Pellet stoves produce very little ash, which is not only help in itself; it also means pellet stove owners don't deal with creosote buildup. Pellets are also cleaner and easier to store. They typically come pre-packaged in plastic bags, sealing out moisture, and they don't shed bark and splinters like firewood. Pellets are also highly compressed and more dense, and therefore take up less space to store than natural wood.

A pellet stove is easier and less expensive to operate than a wood stove. Unlike wood stoves or fireplaces, pellet stoves don’t require a flue. They only need an exhaust vent, which can be easily routed through a wall. Owing to their reduced size, pellet stoves can be installed in places where a wood stove can't. And since pellet stoves burn clean, you can use them even in locations where wood stoves are not allowed because of air quality problems.

Wood pellets are economically viable alternatives to home fossil fuel options and electric heat. Compared to these alternatives, pellet fuel prices are less volatile.

Pellets are easy to store. Even as much as a metric ton of pellets can stack neatly in a 4′ x 4′ x 4′ area. Owners pour these pellets directly into a stove hopper, and regulating the burn rate is easy given the pellets' small, uniform size.

Wood pellets are a sustainable fuel source since burning wood pellets is carbon neutral. Pellet stoves are also viable in areas where air pollition forbids wood stove options.

Wood pellets are a biomass product made of wood waste or other forest-thinning byproducts. According to the Pellet Fuels Institute, wood pellets are an unlimited fuel source.

Wood pellet mills provide jobs, support local economies, and help promote energy independence.

The average home uses three tons of pellets per heating season. With an average retail price of $250/ton, wood pellets on average cost homeowners about $825 per season.