On August 29, 2021, Hurricane Ida made landfall in the southeastern Louisiana as a Category 4 hurricane. Once making landfall near Port Fourchon in Lafourche parish, the storm moved due north through Southeast Louisiana before taking an easternly turn in Mississippi. Given the storm’s path, significant impacts seem to be limited to the five parishes that form the eastern edge of the LSU AgCenter’s Southwest Region (Lafourche, Terrebonne, Assumption, Iberville, and West Baton Rouge) and the entire sixteen parishes of the LSU AgCenter’s Southeast Region.

Preliminary estimates place the total economic impact at $584 million with 54 percent of that value attributable to estimated timber losses and another 35 percent attributable to infrastructure losses.