Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Pointe a la Hache, 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 Pointe a la Hache lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Pointe a la Hache — the short answer
Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana: USDA zone 9b, about 333 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 18
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~333
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Pointe a la Hache's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Pointe a la Hache's 333-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Pointe a la Hache
Each reading below is measured for Pointe a la Hache itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredPointe a la Hache runs about 333 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
MeasuredPointe a la Hache 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 Pointe a la Hache is in
Pointe a la Hache sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Pointe a la Hache's own centroid rather than borrowed from Plaquemines Parish.
What Grows in Pointe a la Hache
Every plant below cleared Pointe a la Hache's own zone 9b and its 333-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Pointe a la Hache?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. 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 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 17 — 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 Pointe a la Hache
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Pointe a la Hache. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- USDA AMS MGMT DAVANT LABrownfields · 0.9 mi
- Beshel's Boat LaunchUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- LAFARGE POINT A LA HACHE READY MIXToxics Release Inventory · 1.1 mi
- B&K ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- BASS ENTERPRISES PRODUCTION COBrownfields · 1.3 mi
- BA 0217 GRAND BAYOU RIDGE AND MARSH RESTORATION PROJECTBrownfields · 1.5 mi
- Pointe a la Hache FacilityUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.6 mi
- BellSouth Telecommunications - J2231Underground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CITRUS LANDS OF LA INCBrownfields · 4.1 mi
- LA VOTECH PORT SULPHERBrownfields · 4.1 mi
- La Cassa IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.9 mi
- TENNESSEE GAS PIPELINE CO #527Brownfields · 5.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Pointe a la Hache'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 Pointe a la Hache.
Total Sites
34
within ~10 miles of Pointe a la Hache
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Pointe a la Hache
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Pointe a la Hache
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Pointe a la Hache, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 17 sites within ~10 miles of Pointe a la Hache. 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 Pointe a la Hache
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 Pointe a la Hache
Everything above resolves to Pointe a la Hache as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Pointe a la Hache Average
Pointe a la Hache Average
- ●USDA Zones 9b, averaged across Pointe a la Hache
- ●One soil character for all of Pointe a la Hache
- ●Frost dates read at Pointe a la Hache's scale: Jan 18 to Dec 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Pointe a la Hache's 9b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Pointe a la Hache
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Pointe a la Hache, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Pointe a la Hache averages can't show:
We read public map data around Pointe a la Hache — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Pointe a la Hache average
How we know this about Pointe a la Hache
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 a la Hache’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 Pointe a la Hache
When does frost risk typically end in Pointe a la Hache?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Pointe a la Hache typically lands around Jan 18, 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 8.
When is the first frost in Pointe a la Hache?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Pointe a la Hache typically arrives around Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Dec 3, so the watching starts about Nov 17 — about 333 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Pointe a la Hache?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Pointe a la Hache sees about 333 frost-free days — roughly Jan 18 through Dec 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 8 to Dec 3, about 298 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Pointe a la Hache?
The federal record around Pointe a la Hache shows 34 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (17), the nearest Brownfields record about 0.9 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Pointe a la Hache?
From about Nov 17 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Pointe a la Hache's scale — its 9b band and its 333-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Pointe a la Hache'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 Pointe a la Hache’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Pointe a la Hache's own scale — its own ~333-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,128 acres it covers and 34 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Pointe a la Hache's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Pointe a la Hache's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jan 18 and Dec 17 and the ~333-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 34 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Pointe a la Hache, the closest Brownfields record about 0.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Pointe a la Hache's boundary and the 1,128 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 9b and a ~333-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Pointe a la Hache's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Pointe a la Hache's 1,128 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 Pointe a la Hache's 1,128 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Pointe a la Hache you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,128 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 0.9 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 Pointe a la Hache-wide figureread your own land →