Farmerville, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Farmerville, 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 Farmerville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Farmerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Farmerville — the short answer
Farmerville, Louisiana: USDA zone 8b, about 282 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 22
- Union Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 1
- Union Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~282
- Union Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Union Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Farmerville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Farmerville's 282-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Farmerville
Each reading below is measured for Farmerville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFarmerville runs about 282 days between hard freezes (read from Union Parish, the closest normal to Farmerville) — 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
MeasuredFarmerville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 Farmerville is in
Farmerville sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Farmerville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Union Parish.
What Grows in Farmerville
Every plant below cleared Farmerville's own zone 8b and its 282-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Farmerville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 25; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the calendar nearly circles: cool-season crops take the winter shift, and the next window is always close.
What's on the federal record near Farmerville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Farmerville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Claiborne Electric CooperativeUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- Chance's Auto Service LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- OTASCO SERVICE CENTERBrownfields · 950 ft
- Coast To Coast Home & AutoUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Lee's Tire Service IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- O'REILLY AUTO PARTS #2120Brownfields · 1100 ft
- Otasco Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- EZ PakUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Farmerville Town ofUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- SERENITY SPRINGS HOSPITALBrownfields · 1500 ft
- Un-1Nitrate · 1500 ft
- Andersons GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Farmerville'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 Farmerville.
Total Sites
153
within ~10 miles of Farmerville
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Farmerville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Farmerville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Farmerville, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Farmerville — CAFO (6 sites) and Nitrate (52 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Farmerville
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 Farmerville average
Your land is one point inside Farmerville
Everything above resolves to Farmerville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 4K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Union 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 Farmerville Average
Farmerville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Farmerville
- ●One soil character for all of Farmerville
- ●Frost dates read at Farmerville's scale: Feb 22 to Dec 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Farmerville's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Farmerville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Farmerville, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Farmerville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Farmerville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Farmerville average
How we know this about Farmerville
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 Union 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 Farmerville
When does frost risk typically end in Farmerville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Farmerville typically lands around Feb 22, 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 Mar 15.
When is the first frost in Farmerville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Farmerville typically arrives around Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 17, so the watching starts about Nov 1 — about 282 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Farmerville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Farmerville sees about 282 frost-free days — roughly Feb 22 through Dec 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 15 to Nov 17, about 247 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Farmerville?
The federal record around Farmerville shows 153 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Farmerville?
From about Nov 1 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Farmerville's scale — its 8b band and its 282-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Farmerville'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 Farmerville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Farmerville's own scale — the 3,699 acres it covers and 153 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Farmerville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 153 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Farmerville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Farmerville's boundary and the 3,699 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~282-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Farmerville's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Farmerville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Union Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Farmerville's 3,699 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Union County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Union 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 Union County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Farmerville's 3,699 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Farmerville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,699 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 Farmerville-wide figureread your own land →
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