New Orleans Station, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Orleans Station, 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 New Orleans Station lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Orleans Station — the short answer
New Orleans Station, Louisiana: USDA zone 9b, about 330 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 24
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~330
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9b is New Orleans Station's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Orleans Station's 330-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Orleans Station
Each reading below is measured for New Orleans Station itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNew Orleans Station runs about 330 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredNew Orleans Station 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 New Orleans Station is in
New Orleans Station sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Orleans Station's own centroid rather than borrowed from Plaquemines Parish.
What Grows in New Orleans Station
Every plant below cleared New Orleans Station's own zone 9b and its 330-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Orleans Station?
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 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 20 — 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 New Orleans Station
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Orleans Station. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- NEW ORLEANS NAVY HOUSING LLCBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- VECTOR SCHLUMBERGERBrownfields · 1.1 mi
- Schlumberger Offshore Service-GcUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Schlumberger Technology Corp - Gulf Coast Service Center (GCSC)Underground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Mom's & Dad's Food StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Belle Chasse Self ServeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- BIG EASY COLLISION LLCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- CORRPRO COMPANIES INCBrownfields · 1.2 mi
- J A Brandt & Associates LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- GERBER COLLISION AND GLASS - BELLE CHASSEBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- NEW ORLEANS & GULF COAST RAILROAD - TRANSPORTERSBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL STORE 6475Brownfields · 1.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Orleans Station'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 New Orleans Station.
Total Sites
2,704
within ~10 miles of New Orleans Station
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
13 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Orleans Station
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Orleans Station
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Orleans Station, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 1,608 sites within ~10 miles of New Orleans Station. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Brownfields: Brownfield sites are former commercial or industrial properties where legacy soil contamination (heavy metals, PAHs, petroleum compounds) may persist.
Check EPA brownfield remediation status — many sites have completed cleanup with institutional controls.
Check your specific parcel in New Orleans Station
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 New Orleans Station average
Your land is one point inside New Orleans Station
Everything above resolves to New Orleans Station as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K acres. 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 New Orleans Station Average
New Orleans Station Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across New Orleans Station
- ●One soil character for all of New Orleans Station
- ●Frost dates read at New Orleans Station's scale: Jan 24 to Dec 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Orleans Station's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Orleans Station
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Orleans Station, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Orleans Station averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Orleans Station — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Orleans Station average
How we know this about New Orleans Station
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 New Orleans Station’s own record; 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 New Orleans Station
When does frost risk typically end in New Orleans Station?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Orleans Station 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 New Orleans Station?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Orleans Station typically arrives around Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 6, so the watching starts about Nov 20 — about 330 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Orleans Station?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Orleans Station sees about 330 frost-free days — roughly Jan 24 through Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 14 to Dec 6, about 295 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Orleans Station?
The federal record around New Orleans Station is a meaningful one — 2,704 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (1,608), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 New Orleans Station?
From about Nov 20 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 20 (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 20. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Orleans Station's scale — its 9b band and its 330-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Orleans Station'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 New Orleans Station’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at New Orleans Station's own scale — its own ~330-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,327 acres it covers and 2,704 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Orleans Station's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- New Orleans Station's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jan 24 and Dec 20 and the ~330-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,704 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Orleans Station, the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Orleans Station's boundary and the 3,327 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~330-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Orleans Station's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Orleans Station's 3,327 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Plaquemines County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Plaquemines 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 Plaquemines County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Orleans Station's 3,327 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Orleans Station you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,327 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.7 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 New Orleans Station-wide figureread your own land →