Tools and Resources
This release contains provisional statistics on:
The final results are published every September in Forestry Statistics, and summarised in Forestry Facts and Figures.
Coverage: United Kingdom
Geographical breakdown: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland
Published: 26 June 2025
Next update: See the release calendar
Published by: Forest Research Official Statistics Team
Email: statistics@forestresearch.gov.uk
Tel: 0300 067 5238
A quality report for this publication can be found in our Quality of Official Statistics page. A Quality Assurance of Administrative Data report for the sources used in this publication can be found on our Administrative sources page.
More detailed information on the methodology for estimating woodland area is provided in ‘Chapter 10: Sources and Methodology’ of Forestry Statistics. The estimates make use of the National Forest Inventory data. Further information (including reports) can be found on the National Forest Inventory page.
Information on pre-release access to our official statistics can be found on the pre-release access pages, including lists of the individuals who are given pre-release access to specific publications.
Prior to the 2019 edition of Provisional Woodland Statistics, the reported figures were published in two separate releases:
Previous releases of Woodland Area, Planting and Publicly Funded Restocking:
Previous releases of Woodland Carbon Code: