Frierson, 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.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Frierson, 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 Frierson lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Frierson — the short answer
Frierson, Louisiana: USDA zone 8b, about 282 days between hard freezes, across 353 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 21
- De Soto Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- De Soto Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~282
- De Soto Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 353 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 De Soto Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Frierson's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Frierson's 282-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Frierson
Each reading below is measured for Frierson itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsFrierson runs about 282 days between hard freezes (read from De Soto Parish, the closest normal to Frierson) — 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
MeasuredFrierson 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 Frierson is in
Frierson sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Frierson's own centroid rather than borrowed from De Soto Parish.
What Grows in Frierson
Every plant below cleared Frierson'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 Frierson?
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 24; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 21 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Frierson
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Frierson. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Reggie C ResUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- BitsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE #19564Brownfields · 2100 ft
- DS-5481ZNitrate · 0.8 mi
- DIVERSIFIED PRODUCTION LLC - NORTH LOUISIANA GAS PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 0.9 mi
- DS-6687ZNitrate · 1.0 mi
- DS-67Nitrate · 1.7 mi
- LA MIDSTREAM GAS SERVICES LLC - NORTH DESOTO CENTRAL FACILITYBrownfields · 1.9 mi
- NALCO CO - FRIERSONBrownfields · 2.3 mi
- NALCO CO - FRIERSONToxics Release Inventory · 2.3 mi
- Three Little Ones LLC - Relay Station Truck StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- KNIGHT OIL TOOLSBrownfields · 2.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Frierson'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 Frierson.
Total Sites
195
within ~10 miles of Frierson
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Frierson
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Frierson
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Frierson, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 122 sites within ~10 miles of Frierson. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Frierson
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 Frierson
Everything above resolves to Frierson as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 353 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from De Soto 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 Frierson Average
Frierson Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Frierson
- ●One soil character for all of Frierson
- ●Frost dates read at Frierson's scale: Feb 21 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Frierson's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Frierson
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Frierson, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Frierson averages can't show:
We read public map data around Frierson — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Frierson average
How we know this about Frierson
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 De Soto 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 Frierson
When does frost risk typically end in Frierson?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Frierson typically lands around Feb 21, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Frierson?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Frierson typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 282 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Frierson?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Frierson sees about 282 frost-free days — roughly Feb 21 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 14 to Nov 16, about 247 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Frierson?
The federal record around Frierson is a meaningful one — 195 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (122), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Frierson?
From about Oct 31 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 Nov 30 (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 Nov 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Frierson's scale — its 8b band and its 282-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Frierson'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 Frierson’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Frierson's own scale — the 353 acres it covers and 195 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Frierson's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 195 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Frierson, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Frierson's boundary and the 353 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 Frierson's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Frierson has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom De Soto Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Frierson's 353 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom De Soto County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom De Soto 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 De Soto County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Frierson's 353 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Frierson you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 353 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Frierson-wide figureread your own land →
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