Here’s how hard the wildfires hit Louisiana’s timber industry

November 3, 2023

P1074289jpg — Pine trees sport dead, brown needles and charred bark in a forest along Lonzie Doyle Road near the Westport community in Rapides Parish on Sept. 5, 2023. This forest burned in the Highway 113 Fire, which has consumed about 8,000 acres. (Olivia McClure/LSU AgCenter)

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Wildfires that engulfed more than 50,000 acres of Louisiana forests during this summer’s record-breaking heat and drought dealt a blow of at least $71 million to the state’s timber sector, according to LSU AgCenter estimates. That figure is expected to climb higher as wildfires continue to burn in some areas. A total of 52,883 acres

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