Fisher, 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.
On paper, artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Fisher, 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 Fisher lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fisher — the short answer
Fisher, Louisiana: USDA zone 9a, about 288 days between hard freezes, across 394 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Sabine Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 2
- Sabine Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~288
- Sabine Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 394 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 Sabine Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Fisher's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fisher's 288-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fisher
Each reading below is measured for Fisher itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFisher runs about 288 days between hard freezes (read from Sabine Parish, the closest normal to Fisher) — 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
MeasuredFisher 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 Fisher is in
Fisher sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fisher's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sabine Parish.
What Grows in Fisher
Every plant below cleared Fisher's own zone 9a and its 288-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fisher?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 2 — 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 Fisher
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fisher. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Sa-459Nitrate · 250 ft
- Sa-8Nitrate · 1800 ft
- LADOTD - SP 025-02-0032Underground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Boise Cascade Wood Products LLC - Fisher SawmillUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- BOISE CASCADE WOOD PRODUCTS LLCBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- BILLS GARAGEBrownfields · 1.6 mi
- PATRICK MILLER TRACTOR COBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- LA VOTECH SABINE VALLEY TECHNICAL INSTBrownfields · 1.7 mi
- Former Lewing GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
- Sa-303Nitrate · 2.0 mi
- Lockwoods GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- FLORIEN TRUCK & AUTOBrownfields · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fisher'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 Fisher.
Total Sites
203
within ~10 miles of Fisher
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fisher
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fisher
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fisher, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 80 sites within ~10 miles of Fisher. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Fisher
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 Fisher
Everything above resolves to Fisher as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 394 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Sabine 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 Fisher Average
Fisher Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Fisher
- ●One soil character for all of Fisher
- ●Frost dates read at Fisher's scale: Feb 17 to Dec 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fisher's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fisher
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fisher, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
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We read public map data around Fisher — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fisher average
How we know this about Fisher
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 Sabine 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 Fisher
When does frost risk typically end in Fisher?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fisher typically lands around Feb 17, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Fisher?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fisher typically arrives around Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 18, so the watching starts about Nov 2 — about 288 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fisher?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fisher sees about 288 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Dec 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 18, about 253 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fisher?
The federal record around Fisher is a meaningful one — 203 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (80), the nearest Nitrate 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 Fisher?
From about Nov 2 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fisher's scale — its 9a band and its 288-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fisher'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 Fisher’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Fisher's own scale — the 394 acres it covers and 203 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fisher's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 203 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fisher, the closest Nitrate record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fisher's boundary and the 394 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~288-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fisher's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Fisher has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Sabine Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fisher's 394 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sabine County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sabine 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 Sabine County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fisher's 394 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fisher you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 394 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Fisher-wide figureread your own land →
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