Roadsides and wetland edges turn first, and the woods behind them run a few days later.
No new reports from the ground here this week.
That’s 4 days later than our model alone would say. This September has been running warm, which shifts peak color.
Plan this tripIf you can only come on certain days
Set the days you can be here. Everything under them answers for those days, not for peak.
Sunday 15 November to Monday 16 November
You’ll find it peak color.
That's the day our forecast puts peak color here.
- What turns
- water oak, sweetgum, blackgum, red maple, bald cypress
What turns, and when
- water oak18%
- sweetgum18%
- blackgum18%
- red maple18%
- bald cypress9%
- white oak5%
Also named across Louisiana, outside what the canopy read measures here: Hickory, Tupelo.
Bald cypresses turn russet and copper in the swamps while sweetgums and tupelos provide red and purple accents, creating a warm, moody fall in the bayou landscape.
Across Louisiana as a whole: Late November through mid-December, later than most people expect.
This forecast is built from the species that stand here, their elevation and this September’s weather, and corrected in season by cameras, foresters and our own crew. We score it here against 7 long-running forest cameras: two dates in three land within 13 days of the camera’s own peak. How this map is made