Delcambre, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
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 Delcambre, 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 Delcambre lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Delcambre — the short answer
Delcambre, Louisiana: USDA zone 9b, about 315 days between hard freezes, across 750 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 25
- Vermilion Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 6
- Vermilion Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~315
- Vermilion Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 750 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 Vermilion Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Delcambre's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Delcambre's 315-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Delcambre
Each reading below is measured for Delcambre itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsDelcambre runs about 315 days between hard freezes (read from Vermilion Parish, the closest normal to Delcambre) — 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
MeasuredDelcambre 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 Delcambre is in
Delcambre sits in the Western Gulf Coastal Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Delcambre's own centroid rather than borrowed from Vermilion Parish.
What Grows in Delcambre
Every plant below cleared Delcambre's own zone 9b and its 315-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Delcambre?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 25 (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. 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 Delcambre
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Delcambre. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Viators Texaco & Muffler CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Country Store #6Underground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- T&L Feed Co IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Delcambre Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Ve-651Nitrate · 1100 ft
- AMERADA HESS CORP DELCAMBRE BASEBrownfields · 1300 ft
- Ve-138Nitrate · 1300 ft
- Ve-122Nitrate · 1300 ft
- Vacant Canal Refining Co StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Delcambre Town ofUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Jr Food Mart #23Underground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Brady EngineUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Delcambre'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 Delcambre.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Delcambre
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Delcambre
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Delcambre, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Delcambre — PFAS (7 sites) and Brownfields (370 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in Delcambre
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 Delcambre average
Your land is one point inside Delcambre
Everything above resolves to Delcambre as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 750 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Vermilion 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 Delcambre Average
Delcambre Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Delcambre
- ●One soil character for all of Delcambre
- ●Frost dates read at Delcambre's scale: Jan 25 to Dec 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Delcambre's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Delcambre
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Delcambre, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Delcambre averages can't show:
We read public map data around Delcambre — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Delcambre average
How we know this about Delcambre
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 Vermilion 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 Delcambre
When does frost risk typically end in Delcambre?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Delcambre typically lands around Jan 25, 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 15.
When is the first frost in Delcambre?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Delcambre 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 315 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Delcambre?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Delcambre sees about 315 frost-free days — roughly Jan 25 through Dec 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 15 to Nov 22, about 280 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Delcambre?
The federal record around Delcambre is a meaningful one — 727 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (370), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Delcambre?
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 Delcambre's scale — its 9b band and its 315-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Delcambre'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 Delcambre’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Delcambre's own scale — the 750 acres it covers and 727 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Delcambre's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 727 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Delcambre, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Delcambre's boundary and the 750 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~315-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Delcambre's own centroid, the Western Gulf Coastal PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Delcambre has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Vermilion Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Delcambre's 750 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Vermilion County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Vermilion 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 Vermilion County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Delcambre's 750 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Delcambre you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 750 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Delcambre-wide figureread your own land →
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