Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Breaux Bridge, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Breaux Bridge lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Breaux Bridge — the short answer
Breaux Bridge, Louisiana: USDA zone 9a, about 308 days between hard freezes, across 5K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 1
- St. Martin Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- St. Martin Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~308
- St. Martin Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 5K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are St. Martin Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Breaux Bridge's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Breaux Bridge's 308-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Breaux Bridge
Each reading below is measured for Breaux Bridge itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBreaux Bridge runs about 308 days between hard freezes (read from St. Martin Parish, the closest normal to Breaux Bridge) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBreaux Bridge sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Breaux Bridge is in
Breaux Bridge sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Breaux Bridge's own centroid rather than borrowed from St. Martin Parish.
What Grows in Breaux Bridge
Every plant below cleared Breaux Bridge's own zone 9a and its 308-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Breaux Bridge?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 4; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 1 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 6 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Breaux Bridge
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Breaux Bridge. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Courtesy Motors Vermillion LLC dba Courtesy Chevrolet of Breaux BridgeUnderground Storage Tanks · 350 ft
- COURTESY MOTORS VERMILLION LLC DBA COURTESY CHEVROLET OF BREAUX BRIDGEBrownfields · 450 ft
- WALMART STORE # 402Brownfields · 600 ft
- TRACTOR SUPPLY #1347Brownfields · 650 ft
- WALGREENS #7696Brownfields · 650 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS #2249Brownfields · 800 ft
- AUTOZONE #3056Brownfields · 800 ft
- COURTESY FORD LINCOLNBrownfields · 1100 ft
- WINN DIXIE #1549Brownfields · 1200 ft
- WALGREENS STORE 21562Brownfields · 1200 ft
- Russells Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- LOUISIANA SUGARCANE COOP BREAUX BRIDGE BRANCHToxics Release Inventory · 1300 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Breaux Bridge's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Breaux Bridge.
Total Sites
1,913
within ~10 miles of Breaux Bridge
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Breaux Bridge
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Breaux Bridge
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Breaux Bridge, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 952 sites within ~10 miles of Breaux Bridge. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Breaux Bridge
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Breaux Bridge average
Your land is one point inside Breaux Bridge
Everything above resolves to Breaux Bridge as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 5K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from St. Martin Parish’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at city scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Breaux Bridge Average
Breaux Bridge Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Breaux Bridge
- ●One soil character for all of Breaux Bridge
- ●Frost dates read at Breaux Bridge's scale: Feb 1 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Breaux Bridge's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Breaux Bridge
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Breaux Bridge averages can't show:
We read public map data around Breaux Bridge — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Breaux Bridge average
How we know this about Breaux Bridge
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at St. Martin Parish’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Breaux Bridge
When does frost risk typically end in Breaux Bridge?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Breaux Bridge typically lands around Feb 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Feb 22.
When is the first frost in Breaux Bridge?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Breaux Bridge typically arrives around Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 22, so the watching starts about Nov 6 — about 308 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Breaux Bridge?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Breaux Bridge sees about 308 frost-free days — roughly Feb 1 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 22 to Nov 22, about 273 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Breaux Bridge?
The federal record around Breaux Bridge is a meaningful one — 1,913 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (952), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Breaux Bridge?
From about Nov 6 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Dec 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Dec 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Breaux Bridge's scale — its 9a band and its 308-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Breaux Bridge's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Breaux Bridge’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Breaux Bridge's own scale — the 4,938 acres it covers and 1,913 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Breaux Bridge's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 1,913 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Breaux Bridge, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Breaux Bridge's boundary and the 4,938 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~308-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Breaux Bridge's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Breaux Bridge has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom St. Martin Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Breaux Bridge's 4,938 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom St. Martin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom St. Martin County
- The growing challenges every Louisiana grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Louisiana
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom St. Martin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Breaux Bridge's 4,938 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Breaux Bridge you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 4,938 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Breaux Bridge-wide figureread your own land →