Staff Report No. 2021-63

Hurricane Ida made landfall with lashing rain and fierce gusts on Sunday, August 29, 2021—sixteen years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. The storm brought severe damage to the region's timber industry; 167,622 acres of forestland in 11 parishes were destroyed. An estimated 181 million cubic feet (ft3) of timber were affected, including 86 million ft3 of pine timber and 95 million ft3 of hardwood timber. The highest timber volume losses were in Tangipahoa (88 million ft3) and Livingston (33 million ft3) Parishes.

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