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Louisiana Firewood Permits 2026: Prices, Seasons and Rules

The Kisatchie National Forest requires a permit to collect firewood and issues it through its ranger district offices, and Louisiana runs a real emerald ash borer quarantine that makes hardwood firewood a regulated article in ten northern parishes.

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Office selling permits
national forest and BLM
On the office page
Price per cord
set district by district
Quarantine
Bringing wood in
Louisiana Dept of Agriculture and Forestry
A distance is set
How far it may travel
10 miles
Office by office

Where to buy a firewood permit in Louisiana

One office in Louisiana sells a personal use firewood permit. Each office posts its own price on its permit page.

Kisatchie is the only national forest in Louisiana. The Department of Agriculture and Forestry runs the Indian Creek Recreation Area campground but publishes no firewood permit for it.

Kisatchie National Forest

Permit on request

USDA Forest Service

Price
On the office page
Cutting season
Sold on request
Where to buy
the appropriate Ranger District Office
To help us meet this goal, certain activities, such as firewood collection or event gatherings, require permits, while other activities, such as frequently enjoying day-use areas like boat launches, benefit from passes.
Permits, Kisatchie National Forest, USDA Forest Service, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

Rules on this permit

Firewood is handled as a special use permit and starts with the ranger district.

Special use permits for firewood, road access, etc. may be obtained by contacting the appropriate Ranger District Office for more details and information about how to obtain a permit.
Kisatchie National Forest. Read it at the source

Wood for a campfire you are actually burning on the forest is the one case that needs no permit.

When you are building a campfire on National Forest System lands, you can collect a reasonable quantity of wood for the campfire without a permit.
Kisatchie National Forest. Read it at the source

Every special use authorization is tied to a defined use and a defined period, and none of them is permanent.

None of the existing special use authorities provide for permanent use of National Forest System lands.
Kisatchie National Forest. Read it at the source
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Moving firewood

Can you bring firewood into Louisiana?

Louisiana has a quarantine on the books, which means untreated firewood from outside the line may not come in. The rule is written by the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, and it sits below in its own words.

Quarantine

Louisiana restricts moving firewood, and its agencies ask that wood travel no more than 10 miles.

Louisiana quarantines ten northern parishes for emerald ash borer. Firewood of any hardwood species is a regulated article, so it cannot leave a quarantined parish without a certificate or limited permit from the department. Statewide, the department asks people to buy firewood within 10 miles of where they will burn it and to burn all of it.

Agency
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry
How far wood may travel
10 miles
Certified or treated wood
The rule does not turn on a certificate
Pests named
emerald ash borer
The existing quarantine presently includes the parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Claiborne, Jackson, Morehouse, Lincoln, Ouachita, Union and Webster. This proposed Rule expands the quarantine to include Caddo Parish.
Louisiana Register Vol. 45, No. 10, October 20, 2019, Emerald Ash Borer Quarantine (LAC 7:XV.167), Office of the State Register, read September 22, 2026. Read it at the source

What the rule says

Firewood of any hardwood species is a regulated article under the quarantine, not just ash.

the emerald ash borer in all of its life stages; firewood of all hardwood (non-coniferous) species; nursery stock, green lumber, and other material living, dead, cut, or fallen, including logs, stumps, roots, branches, and composted and uncomposted chips of the genus Fraxinus;
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Read it at the source

Nothing regulated may be carried out of a quarantined parish unless the rule itself allows it.

No regulated articles as defined in this Section shall be moved out of any area of this state that is listed in this Section as a quarantined area for EAB, except as provided in this Section.
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Read it at the source

The way out is a certificate or limited permit issued by the department and attached to the load.

The regulated articles being moved are accompanied by a certificate or limited permit issued by LDAF and attached in accordance with the EAB federal requirements.
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Read it at the source

Beyond the quarantine, the department's own guidance is a 10 mile radius and burning everything you bring.

LDAF suggests that all firewood be purchased within 10 miles from where it will be used. If camping or traveling, please make sure to burn all of the wood that is brought to the site.
Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. Read it at the source

The insect named in the Louisiana rule is emerald ash borer. A beetle covers a few hundred yards in a season on its own wings, and several hundred miles in an afternoon in the bed of a pickup, which is the whole reason the rule exists.

A slender metallic green beetle about half an inch long resting on pale cracked tree bark
The emerald ash borer, photographed by USDA Plant Protection and Quarantine. It flies only a short way on its own; a load of untreated firewood carries it as far as the truck goes, which is why more states name it in their firewood rules than any other pest. “Plant Protection and Quarantine (34954841290)”, APHIS.gov, Public domain
Nearby

What a cord costs in the states next door

A permit is only good on the land the office manages, so a cheaper cord across the line still has to obey whatever Louisiana says about firewood arriving. The nearest states posting a price by the cord:

  1. Texas$20

Louisiana firewood permit questions

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Firewood permits in other states

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An open pole woodshed in a spruce clearing, one bay filled with stacked cordwood, a hydraulic log splitter in the foreground
An Alaska woodshed in summer with the winter stacked and the splitter still out. A cord is a stack four feet by four feet by eight feet, and that is the unit nearly every permit is priced in. “Alaska woodshed”, Keith Parker, CC BY-SA 2.0

Compiled September 22, 2026 from Permits, Kisatchie National Forest, USDA Forest Service and the other agency pages linked beside each quote above. Prices, seasons and quarantine boundaries change, so the agency’s own page is the one to read before you load a truck. Every state is in the national firewood permit guide.