Have an old (landscape*) pear tree that always has fire-blight and plan to remove it this winter. Ordinarily we pile up logs in our woods but I don’t know whether the fireblight-infected wood would be infectious come spring.
I’ve read a range of advice from burn it all, drag it 100 ft away, to don’t worry about it.
*I think it was originally a Bradford but regrew a couple times after killed by FB. It’s now about 30 ft tall.
Pear make great fire wood.
@zeppley Pear is sought after for woodworking. Also, some people like it for smoking meat. There may be someone may be willing to buy it and haul it away for the wood.
Fireblight can still spread the next year from a felled pear tree. If the trunk is barked over you can use it and graft resistant pears to it. I’ve got several trees that’s rootstock are not firebight resistant but once they bark over they are not a problem as long as the infection is not systemic. Almost all Flowering pears do not die from the infection as it doesn’t go systemic rather they suffer from ongoing infections so they spread the disease. If you allow no shoots from the original tree to grow and graft a tree like harrow delight on then you get a fireblight free tree. Fire blight of apple and pear
I originally thought about grafting onto it, but changed my mind this summer after my young Harrow Delight just down wind of it succumbed. I kept pruning the blight out and was left with a 6" tall stumb.