Fort Jesup, Louisiana Weather
Fort Jesup, Louisiana — live current conditions, hourly and 7-day forecasts, NWS alerts, radar and satellite imagery, tide predictions, marine conditions and a solunar fishing forecast, soil and crop conditions for Fort Jesup, Sabine Parish.
Tides, marine forecast and fishing conditions near Fort Jesup. Tide source:
Full aviation weather for Fort Jesup is published on the Hart Airport (K3R4) page, 11 km away. It carries the current METAR decoded into plain language — surface wind, visibility, cloud layers and ceiling, temperature and dewpoint, and altimeter setting — alongside the raw observation as transmitted. 2 airfields within reach of Fort Jesup have their own pages, listed below.
The Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF) is shown across its full validity period, with each change group broken out so you can see when conditions are expected to shift. Flight category is derived automatically — VFR, MVFR, IFR or LIFR — from reported ceiling and visibility, with runway details and field elevation alongside. Observations update roughly hourly and forecasts several times a day.
Other airports near Fort Jesup: Natchitoches Regional Airport (KIER) 32 km
Conditions reported at K3R4 describe the airfield itself. Weather 11 km away can differ, particularly in terrain or near the coast. For conditions at Fort Jesup specifically, see the current conditions and forecast above.
Soil conditions, frost risk and crop weather for Fort Jesup.
About Fort Jesup, Louisiana
Fort Jesup rests on land that remembers the slow, persistent work of water and wind, a gentle rise here and there breaking the otherwise flat expanse of piney woods and scattered hardwoods that characterize this corner of Louisiana. It lies 60.2 miles west-north-west of Alexandria, LA (from Alexandria, LA: bearing 291°T), and is situated 5.7 miles east-north-east of Many. The air hangs thick and humid, carrying the scent of damp earth and the distant, sweet decay of fallen leaves, a constant reminder of the lush, subtropical embrace of the region. Longleaf pines, tall and straight as soldiers, stand sentinel over the undergrowth of palmetto and gallberry, their needles rustling a dry, whispered song in the infrequent breezes. The light here, especially in the late afternoon, filters through the dense canopy in shifting, ethereal shafts, illuminating the quiet persistence of life in this often-overlooked landscape. The history of Fort Jesup is tied to the very edge of a burgeoning nation, a strategic outpost established in the early nineteenth century to secure the border with Spanish Texas and later to observe the movements of the Mexican army. Its strategic importance waned with shifting political boundaries, but the land itself continued to support a modest agrarian life, with small farms carved out of the dense woodlands, growing cotton and corn under the watchful gaze of the humid sky. Today, the remnants of the fort stand as a quiet testament to those earlier times, a place where the echoes of military drills can almost be heard above the drone of cicadas. The local economy, like much of rural Louisiana, relies on the bounty of the land and the surrounding waterways, with timber harvesting and small-scale agriculture still playing a role, while the nearby Sabine River offers a slower, more deliberate pace of life, its waters reflecting the endless, changing moods of the sky above Fort Jesup.
Live animated radar for Fort Jesup and surroundings — RainViewer.
NOAA GOES-16 GEOCOLOR — live animated loop updated every 10 minutes. Shows cloud cover, storm systems and weather patterns across the continental US.
Source: NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East · Public domain · Auto-updates on page reload
| Location | Fort Jesup, Sabine Parish, Louisiana |
| Coordinates | 31.612949°N, 93.402951°W |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| ZIP Code(s) | 71449 |
| Area Code | 318 |
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Weather data | Open-Meteo (open-source), NOAA National Weather Service |
About This Fort Jesup, Louisiana Weather Page
This page provides live weather conditions and forecasts for Fort Jesup, Louisiana, including current conditions, a 24-hour hourly forecast, 7-day outlook, NWS extended text forecast, precipitation radar and NOAA GOES-16 satellite imagery. Aviation weather — live METAR observations and TAF forecasts — is published separately on the pages for the nearest reporting airports, linked from the aviation section above. Additional sections may include tide predictions, wave height, wave direction and sea-surface temperature, a barometric pressure trend, and a solunar-based fishing forecast with a fishing-conditions rating for coastal localities, and soil temperature, crop weather and live USGS river gauge data for agricultural areas near a monitored waterway. All data updates automatically on every page visit.
Location data for Fort Jesup includes coordinates 31.612949°N, 93.402951°W, situated in Sabine Parish. ZIP code 71449. Telephone area code: 318. Timezone: Central Time (America/Chicago).
Weather data is sourced from the NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) and the open-source Open-Meteo API. River and stream data is sourced from the USGS National Water Information System. Tide predictions are sourced from NOAA CO-OPS; marine and solunar data are modeled from Open-Meteo and public sunrise/moon calculations and should be treated as a general guide alongside on-the-water conditions. Radar is provided by RainViewer. Satellite imagery is sourced from NOAA/NESDIS GOES-East and is public domain.
