Louisiana Campfire Rules and Burn Bans, With Live Fire Weather
Louisiana Office of State Parks sets the campfire rules for Louisiana's state parks. Burn bans and fire restrictions are posted by Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Live National Weather Service fire weather alerts for Louisiana load on the page.
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Burn bans and restrictions: Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
The campfire rule in Louisiana
Campfires on national forest and BLM land
Campfires are allowed when you are dispersed camping unless there are fire restrictions in effect due to high fire danger conditions.USFS, read October 18, 2026. Read it at the source
Where fire restrictions are posted
The Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry provides the state burn ban map for current fire conditions and burn bans on their website .USFS, read October 18, 2026. Read it at the source
Current restrictions: Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry.
Quoted from pages read October 18, 2026. A county, a national forest or a single park can order a stricter ban than the state, so ask the local fire department or ranger district before you light a fire.
Camping in Louisiana
The Louisiana camping guide has the months when the weather works, how Louisiana Office of State Parks books sites, the rule for camping outside a campground and a live weekend forecast for your campsite.
Louisiana campfire questions
Campfire rules in other states
Where this page’s facts come from
- State park, forestry and federal land pages (read October 18, 2026). Booking windows, reservation systems, campfire rules, fire restriction sources and rules for camping outside a campground, each quoted word for word with a link to the page it came from.
- NOAA NCEI U.S. Climate Normals 1991 to 2020 (read October 18, 2026). Average monthly high, low and nights at or below 32 F at 150 reference stations, the same stations the heat season and heating season pages use.
- National Weather Service alerts (live, read in your browser when the page loads). Red Flag Warnings, Fire Weather Watches, Fire Warnings, Freeze Warnings and High Wind Warnings, read live from api.weather.gov.
- National Weather Service 7 day forecast (live, read in your browser when the page loads). The weekend forecast for the ZIP code a visitor enters, read live from api.weather.gov.