Ten indigenous fuelwood species of northeast India were ranked by pairwise comparison, a technique used by rural people for selection of fuelwood, and also from their fuel value indexes calculated by using three different formulae. It was found that the ranks of the species obtained from fuel value indexes calculated according to the formulae reported by Goel and Behl (1996) and Abbot et al. (1992) have sufficient resemblance with those obtained by pair-wise comparison.