Livonia, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Livonia, 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 Livonia 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 Livonia — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Livonia — the short answer
Livonia, Louisiana: USDA zone 9a, about 305 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 5
- Pointe Coupee Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 7
- Pointe Coupee Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~305
- Pointe Coupee Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town 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 Pointe Coupee Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Livonia's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Livonia's 305-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Livonia
Each reading below is measured for Livonia itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsLivonia runs about 305 days between hard freezes (read from Pointe Coupee Parish, the closest normal to Livonia) — 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
MeasuredLivonia 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 Livonia is in
Livonia sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Livonia's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pointe Coupee Parish.
What Grows in Livonia
Every plant below cleared Livonia's own zone 9a and its 305-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Livonia?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 8; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 5 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With almost year-round growing weather, timing is about heat and rainfall more than frost — some bench is always in play.
What's on the federal record near Livonia
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Livonia. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Joe Drago BuildingUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- Achee's Automotive IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- PC-70Nitrate · 1900 ft
- PC-276Nitrate · 2200 ft
- Mike's Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- AT&T LS 0990Underground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- PC-40Nitrate · 0.6 mi
- Ewing's of Livonia LLC - LA Express #11Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- LIVONIA GAS STATIONBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- C Wilcox LLC - Wilcox Travel PlazaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- LIVONIA DENTAL CLINICBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- Livonia Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Livonia'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 Livonia.
Total Sites
211
within ~10 miles of Livonia
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Livonia
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Livonia
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Livonia, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 100 sites within ~10 miles of Livonia. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Livonia
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 Livonia average
Your land is one point inside Livonia
Everything above resolves to Livonia as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Pointe Coupee 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 Livonia Average
Livonia Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Livonia
- ●One soil character for all of Livonia
- ●Frost dates read at Livonia's scale: Feb 5 to Dec 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Livonia's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Livonia
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Livonia, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Livonia averages can't show:
We read public map data around Livonia — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Livonia average
How we know this about Livonia
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 Pointe Coupee 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 Livonia
When does frost risk typically end in Livonia?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Livonia typically lands around Feb 5, 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 26.
When is the first frost in Livonia?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Livonia typically arrives around Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 23, so the watching starts about Nov 7 — about 305 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Livonia?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Livonia sees about 305 frost-free days — roughly Feb 5 through Dec 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 26 to Nov 23, about 270 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Livonia?
The federal record around Livonia is a meaningful one — 211 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (100), 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 Livonia?
From about Nov 7 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Livonia's scale — its 9a band and its 305-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Livonia'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 Livonia’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Livonia's own scale — the 1,212 acres it covers and 211 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Livonia's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 211 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Livonia, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Livonia's boundary and the 1,212 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9a and a ~305-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Livonia's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Livonia has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Pointe Coupee Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Livonia's 1,212 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pointe Coupee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pointe Coupee 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 Pointe Coupee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Livonia's 1,212 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Livonia you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,212 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 Livonia-wide figureread your own land →
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