Amazon Warehouses in Louisiana: Every Facility Code and Address

Louisiana has a small Amazon network with an unusual shape. The state’s most searched facility code
is not in New Orleans or Baton Rouge but in Abbeville, a town of around 12,000 people in Vermilion
Parish. That is the sort of thing a list of addresses will not tell you, and it says something real
about how the network is built.

One note before the table: Louisiana has parishes, not counties. The column heading says county
because that is what our source listings use, but the boundaries in it are parishes.

The short version in numbers: 11 Louisiana facilities on record, 8 of
them carrying a published facility code, spread across 4
distinct facility types. The full breakdown is below.

Looking up a code you saw on a tracking page? Every Louisiana facility we have on record is in the table below with its code, address, and type. Search this page for your code. If it is not here, it is most likely a building in a neighboring state, because parcels cross state lines routinely on the way to you and I’d not read that as a problem.

Every Amazon facility in Louisiana

11 facilities, of which 8 have a published code: 6 fulfillment centers, 2 distribution centers, 2 sortation centers, 1 delivery station.

Addresses are compiled from public listings. Amazon opens, closes, and repurposes buildings
continually, and no facility on this list accepts visitors or takes calls about individual
parcels, which is why we do not publish site phone numbers.

The Louisiana codes people look up most

• WLF2 is a fulfillment center at 3221 Veterans Memorial Dr in Abbeville, and it draws far more
  searches than any other Louisiana code despite sitting in a small town.
• DNO1 is a fulfillment center at 5042 Bloomfield St in New Orleans.
• BTR1 is a fulfillment center at 9001 Cortana Pl in Baton Rouge.
• BTR9 is a sortation center at 3101 Webster Ln in Port Allen, across the river from Baton Rouge.

BTR is Baton Rouge Metropolitan Airport’s code, which is why two quite different buildings on opposite
sides of the Mississippi share the prefix.

Baton Rouge, New Orleans, and a town of twelve thousand

East Baton Rouge and Jefferson parishes lead, with West Baton Rouge behind them, then Lafayette,
Caddo, and Vermilion holding one each. Baton Rouge leads by town, followed by Port Allen and New
Orleans.

The two-city pattern is straightforward. Baton Rouge and New Orleans hold most of the population, sit
on the Mississippi, and connect to I-10 and I-12. Port Allen, directly across the river from Baton
Rouge, holds the sortation capacity.

Abbeville is the interesting one, and the reason WLF2 draws more searches than any other Louisiana
code. It sits well south and west of the main corridor, in a parish with a small population. In our
experience facilities in unexpected places usually reflect land availability and a specific incentive
package rather than population, and the effect on residents is that a parcel can travel away from a
major city before it comes back toward one.

Shreveport, in Caddo Parish, operates on its own in the far northwest, closer to Dallas than to New
Orleans and largely serving that direction.

Hurricane exposure is real and seasonal. Between June and November, facility closures and held
freight are ordinary rather than exceptional, and the whole state can be affected at once.

What it means when your parcel is at one of these

The facility type tells you roughly how far along your parcel is, and I’d argue that is the
single most useful thing on this page after the addresses themselves.

A fulfillment center holds inventory, so a parcel there has usually not been packed for you yet.
A sortation center handles parcels that are already packed, grouping them by destination region.
A delivery station is the last building your parcel sees before it goes onto a van, which means
it is close to you and close to arriving. Our guide to the different types of Amazon warehouse
covers what happens inside each, and sortation center versus fulfillment center
covers the pair people confuse most.

A word on the codes themselves. Amazon has never published its facility naming scheme, so
every decoder you find online is inference rather than documentation. One pattern does hold up
reasonably well: a leading D usually means a delivery station. Beyond that I’d read the type column
above rather than the letters, because the exceptions are common enough to mislead you.

If the parcel has stopped moving entirely, our guide to what a carrier delay means
covers how long to wait before it is worth doing anything, and our guide to
a disappeared order covers the case where
the order itself has vanished from your account rather than the parcel from the network.

If your code is not on this list

Searched and found nothing? That happens often, and I’d read it as unremarkable. The
possibilities are few.

The building sits in a neighboring state. The single most common answer. Parcel networks are
built around drive times rather than state lines, and in our experience a cross-border scan worries
people who have no reason to be worried.

The site is newer than this page. Amazon commissions buildings faster than any list is updated,
so recent codes are frequently absent.

It is not an Amazon code at all. Contracted delivery partners and third-party logistics providers
run their own identifiers, which look similar and are not the same thing.

A character was misread somewhere. Zero versus O, one versus I, five versus S. When I have run
down a code that seemed impossible, a misread character was often the whole story.

Whichever applies, the sensible move is to wait for the next tracking update rather than to
investigate the address.

Other Amazon buildings you may see in tracking

Five other kinds of Amazon building turn up in tracking often enough to be worth naming, and
none of them behave like the ones above.

Air hubs move freight between regions by aircraft rather than picking orders, which is why a
parcel can appear hundreds of miles from both its origin and its destination without anything having
gone wrong. Receive centers, sometimes labeled cross-docks, take bulk shipments from
manufacturers and break them apart for distribution; nothing there is destined for a customer yet.
Amazon Warehousing and Distribution sites hold bulk stock upstream and replenish fulfillment
centers automatically, which matters to importers and is largely unknown among smaller merchants.
Returns centers grade what customers send back. And third-party partner sites are buildings
Amazon uses without owning, which is why some addresses look nothing like a warehouse.

I’d not read too much into seeing one. They are ordinary stages in a long chain.

Visiting, calling, and collecting

Worth stating plainly, because it comes up constantly: you cannot visit any of these
sites. Fulfillment centers, sortation centers, and delivery stations admit no members of the
public, hand out no parcels, and run no inquiry desk. Amazon Locker and Amazon Hub Counter locations
are the designated collection points and are unrelated to the facilities in this table.

Facility phone numbers, where other lists publish them, are the same trap. When I have followed one
up it reached a switchboard with no visibility of orders at all, so the useful route is Amazon
customer service rather than the building.

What Louisiana means for a seller

Two things, one obvious and one not.

The obvious one is the Mississippi River and the Gulf ports. New Orleans and Baton Rouge sit on one
of the largest inland waterway systems in the world, which matters for bulk and agricultural freight
far more than for the containerized consumer goods most Amazon sellers import. I’d not overstate it:
for a typical seller sourcing from Asia, Los Angeles, Savannah, and New York remain the realistic entry
points.

The less obvious one is weather risk concentration. If a meaningful share of your customers are on
the Gulf coast, hurricane season produces a cluster of late deliveries that all land in the same few
weeks. Those affect your On-Time Delivery Rate regardless of cause, and our guide to
what a carrier delay means covers why that
distinction does not protect you.

Placement remains Amazon’s decision through Send to Amazon, and only fulfillment centers hold seller
inventory. Louisiana’s list is short enough that this is quickly apparent.

A note on how much weight to put on this list. I’ve found it helps to say plainly what a
page like this can and cannot do.

Everything here comes from public listings rather than from Amazon, which means it trails the real
network. Closed buildings linger; new ones take a while to appear. The type column carries whatever
those listings recorded, and in our experience that is usually accurate rather than always accurate.

Use the page to identify a code and to understand what stage your parcel has reached. Do not use it
to count Amazon’s footprint exactly, and I’d be wary of anyone who claims to.

FAQ

How many Amazon warehouses are in Louisiana?

The complete list with codes, addresses, and parishes appears in the table above. The network is small
and concentrated around Baton Rouge and New Orleans, with outliers in Abbeville and Shreveport.

What is WLF2 and where is it?

WLF2 is a fulfillment center at 3221 Veterans Memorial Dr in Abbeville, Louisiana. It is the most
searched Louisiana facility code by a wide margin, despite Abbeville being a town of roughly 12,000
people in Vermilion Parish.

Which Louisiana parish has the most Amazon facilities?

East Baton Rouge and Jefferson parishes are level at the top, with West Baton Rouge behind them.
Louisiana uses parishes rather than counties, though source listings label the column county.

Why is my Louisiana parcel traveling away from my city?

Because the state’s fulfillment capacity is not all on the main corridor. A parcel can move toward
Abbeville or Port Allen before heading back toward New Orleans or Baton Rouge, which looks like a
detour and is normal routing.

Do hurricanes affect Amazon deliveries in Louisiana?

Yes, and predictably. Between June and November, facility closures and held freight are ordinary
rather than exceptional, and because the state is compact, a single storm can affect deliveries
across all of it at once.

Is Louisiana useful to Amazon sellers importing goods?

Less than its port infrastructure suggests. The Mississippi and the Gulf ports matter enormously for
bulk and agricultural freight, but for containerized consumer goods most sellers still enter through
Los Angeles, Savannah, or New York.

Last updated: August 29, 2026. Compiled from public listings; Amazon’s facility network changes
continually and this page will lag it. Facilities do not accept visitors or handle parcel
inquiries. For warehouse employment, Amazon’s own hiring site carries current openings and is
the only accurate source.