Delacroix, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Delacroix, 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 Delacroix lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Delacroix — the short answer
Delacroix, Louisiana: USDA zone 9b, about 338 days between hard freezes, across 141 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 16
- St. Bernard Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 20
- St. Bernard Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~338
- St. Bernard Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 141 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. Bernard Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Delacroix's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Delacroix's 338-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Delacroix
Each reading below is measured for Delacroix itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsDelacroix runs about 338 days between hard freezes (read from St. Bernard Parish, the closest normal to Delacroix) — 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
MeasuredDelacroix sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b.
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 Delacroix is in
Delacroix sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Delacroix's own centroid rather than borrowed from St. Bernard Parish.
What Grows in Delacroix
Every plant below cleared Delacroix's own zone 9b and its 338-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Delacroix?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 20 — 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 Delacroix
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Delacroix. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SB-9Nitrate · 1000 ft
- Serigne's Boat LaunchUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- End of The World MarinaUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Acosta CasamereUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.7 mi
- Junction Food StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- Buy U Food Store & DeliUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.2 mi
- TOCA GAS PLANTBrownfields · 7.6 mi
- HIGH POINT GAS TRANSMISSION LLCBrownfields · 7.6 mi
- SB-20Nitrate · 7.6 mi
- Southern Natural Gas Co - Toca Compressor StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.7 mi
- TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE COMPANY LLC - COMPRESSOR STATION 529Brownfields · 7.9 mi
- YSCLOSKEY PLANTBrownfields · 8.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Delacroix'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 Delacroix.
Total Sites
42
within ~10 miles of Delacroix
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Delacroix
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Delacroix
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Delacroix
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 Delacroix
Everything above resolves to Delacroix as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 141 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from St. Bernard 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 Delacroix Average
Delacroix Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Delacroix
- ●One soil character for all of Delacroix
- ●Frost dates read at Delacroix's scale: Jan 16 to Dec 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Delacroix's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Delacroix
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Delacroix, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Delacroix averages can't show:
We read public map data around Delacroix — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Delacroix average
How we know this about Delacroix
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 St. Bernard 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 Delacroix
When does frost risk typically end in Delacroix?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Delacroix typically lands around Jan 16, 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 6.
When is the first frost in Delacroix?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Delacroix typically arrives around Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 6, so the watching starts about Nov 20 — about 338 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Delacroix?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Delacroix sees about 338 frost-free days — roughly Jan 16 through Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 6 to Dec 6, about 303 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Delacroix?
The federal record around Delacroix is light — 42 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (20), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Delacroix?
From about Nov 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Delacroix's scale — its 9b band and its 338-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Delacroix'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 Delacroix’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Delacroix's own scale — the 141 acres it covers and 42 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Delacroix's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 42 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Delacroix, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Delacroix's boundary and the 141 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~338-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Delacroix's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Delacroix has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom St. Bernard Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Delacroix's 141 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom St. Bernard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom St. Bernard 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. Bernard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Delacroix's 141 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Delacroix you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 141 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles 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 Delacroix-wide figureread your own land →