We conducted a 5-year study on long-term (40 years) study plots to determine if woody debris is an important arthropod habitat in longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) forests under varying dormant-season burn frequencies (annual, biennial, quadrennial or unburned). Pitfall traps were used to sample arthropods near logs or near metal drift fences the same length as the logs. We saw little evidence of interaction between fire and arthropod captures near logs. Interactions of burn treatment and trap location only occurred in eight arthropod taxa, and in every case more were captured in pitfalls near drift fences than near logs. Overall, we caught a significantly higher number and a greater arthropod biomass near drift fences than near logs. Catch similarity ranged from 64.4% (SE=3.6) in the annually burned plots to 69.2% (SE=1.4%) in the quadrennially burned plots, but these differences were not significant. Likewise, Shannon diversity, evenness, richness and number of rare species were the same for traps regardless of the trap location. Analyses of variance revealed a significant interaction between trap location and burn frequency for 30 arthropod taxa. In 10 taxa captures were greater near logs in some burn treatments. However, no general trend emerged. Our results showed no increase in log usage by general ground-dwelling arthropods as more frequent burning reduced the herbaceous and woody understory. However, logs were clearly important to a wide variety of arthropods regardless of burn frequency.