Church Point, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Church Point, 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 Church Point lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Church Point — the short answer
Church Point, Louisiana: USDA zone 9a, about 311 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 30
- Acadia Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 7
- Acadia Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~311
- Acadia Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Acadia Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Church Point's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Church Point's 311-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Church Point
Each reading below is measured for Church Point itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsChurch Point runs about 311 days between hard freezes (read from Acadia Parish, the closest normal to Church Point) — 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
MeasuredChurch Point 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 Church Point is in
Church Point sits in the Western Gulf Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Church Point's own centroid rather than borrowed from Acadia Parish.
What Grows in Church Point
Every plant below cleared Church Point's own zone 9a and its 311-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Church Point?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 2; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 30 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Church Point
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Church Point. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Short Stop #4 Main Street ShellUnderground Storage Tanks · 300 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTSBrownfields · 350 ft
- Ac-166Nitrate · 700 ft
- OAKLEY AUTO KAREBrownfields · 850 ft
- Dollar GeneralUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Daigle of Church Point IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Dugas Tire CoUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Horecky Motors IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 900 ft
- Church Point WholesaleUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Ac-241Nitrate · 1000 ft
- Ac-334Nitrate · 1100 ft
- Ac-320Nitrate · 1100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Church Point'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 Church Point.
Total Sites
267
within ~10 miles of Church Point
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Church Point
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Church Point
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Church Point, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Church Point — PFAS (3 sites) and Nitrate (92 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Church Point
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Church Point
Everything above resolves to Church Point as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Acadia Parish’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’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 town 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 Church Point Average
Church Point Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Church Point
- ●One soil character for all of Church Point
- ●Frost dates read at Church Point's scale: Jan 30 to Dec 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Church Point's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Church Point
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We read public map data around Church Point — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Church Point average
How we know this about Church Point
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Acadia 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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Church Point
When does frost risk typically end in Church Point?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Church Point typically lands around Jan 30, 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 20.
When is the first frost in Church Point?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Church Point typically arrives around Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 23, so the watching starts about Nov 7 — about 311 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Church Point?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Church Point sees about 311 frost-free days — roughly Jan 30 through Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 20 to Nov 23, about 276 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Church Point?
The federal record around Church Point is a meaningful one — 267 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (113), 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 Church Point?
From about Nov 7 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Church Point's scale — its 9a band and its 311-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Church Point'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 Church Point’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Church Point's own scale — the 1,852 acres it covers and 267 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Church Point's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 267 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Church Point, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Church Point's boundary and the 1,852 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~311-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Church Point's own centroid, the Western Gulf Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Church Point has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Acadia Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Church Point's 1,852 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Acadia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Acadia 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 Acadia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Church Point's 1,852 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Church Point you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,852 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 Church Point-wide figureread your own land →
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