Jeanerette, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Among the crops suited to this profile: okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke. The site-level story — soil, sun, drainage — decides the rest.
Even in Jeanerette, 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 Jeanerette 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 Jeanerette — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Jeanerette — the short answer
Jeanerette, Louisiana: USDA zone 9b, about 325 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 24
- Iberia Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 15
- Iberia Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~325
- Iberia Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 1K 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 Iberia Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is Jeanerette's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jeanerette's 325-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jeanerette
Each reading below is measured for Jeanerette itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsJeanerette runs about 325 days between hard freezes (read from Iberia Parish, the closest normal to Jeanerette) — 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
MeasuredJeanerette 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 Jeanerette is in
Jeanerette sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Jeanerette's own centroid rather than borrowed from Iberia Parish.
What Grows in Jeanerette
Every plant below cleared Jeanerette's own zone 9b and its 325-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jeanerette?
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 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Jan 24 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 15 — 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 Jeanerette
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jeanerette. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Joe's Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 450 ft
- I-319Nitrate · 900 ft
- JEANERETTE CITY OFBrownfields · 1800 ft
- THE CONGREGATION OF SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCHBrownfields · 2000 ft
- Jeanerette ConocoUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Circle K #4524Underground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- JODAN WELDING SVCBrownfields · 2300 ft
- I-53Nitrate · 2400 ft
- Diego'sUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Z&A Group LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Joes MobileUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- BROUSSARD TRACTORBrownfields · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jeanerette'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 Jeanerette.
Total Sites
343
within ~10 miles of Jeanerette
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
15 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jeanerette
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jeanerette
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jeanerette, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Jeanerette. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Jeanerette
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 Jeanerette average
Your land is one point inside Jeanerette
Everything above resolves to Jeanerette as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Iberia Parish’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 city 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 Jeanerette Average
Jeanerette Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Jeanerette
- ●One soil character for all of Jeanerette
- ●Frost dates read at Jeanerette's scale: Jan 24 to Dec 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jeanerette's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jeanerette
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jeanerette, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jeanerette averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jeanerette — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jeanerette average
How we know this about Jeanerette
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Iberia 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Jeanerette
When does frost risk typically end in Jeanerette?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jeanerette typically lands around Jan 24, 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 14.
When is the first frost in Jeanerette?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jeanerette typically arrives around Dec 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 1, so the watching starts about Nov 15 — about 325 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jeanerette?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jeanerette sees about 325 frost-free days — roughly Jan 24 through Dec 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 14 to Dec 1, about 290 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jeanerette?
The federal record around Jeanerette is a meaningful one — 343 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (149), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Jeanerette?
From about Nov 15 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jeanerette's scale — its 9b band and its 325-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jeanerette'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 Jeanerette’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Jeanerette's own scale — the 1,477 acres it covers and 343 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jeanerette's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 343 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jeanerette, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jeanerette's boundary and the 1,477 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~325-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jeanerette's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Jeanerette has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Iberia Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jeanerette's 1,477 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Iberia County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Iberia 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 Iberia County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jeanerette's 1,477 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jeanerette you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,477 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Jeanerette-wide figureread your own land →