I'm told that a wood-burning fire warms you up at least five times;
gathering the wood,
chopping it,
stacking it,
carting it to the fireplace, and then
burning it.

My house is passively solar heated and I use the roof to collect water, which I don't want tainted with creosote. Because the roof is upside down, this means I can't have a flue anywhere in the roof and thus don't have a fire.

But I do occasionally cook roasts in the camp oven in the garden, so I can gaze at coals if I need to. Even in winter.

Enjoy your fires.

Cheers, Rowan