Reeves, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 9a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect artichoke, fig, california poppy, and cabbage to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Reeves, 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 Reeves 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 Reeves — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Reeves — the short answer
Reeves, Louisiana: USDA zone 9a, about 305 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 9a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 6
- Allen Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 8
- Allen Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~305
- Allen Parish normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Allen Parish’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 9a is Reeves's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Reeves's 305-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Reeves
Each reading below is measured for Reeves itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsReeves runs about 305 days between hard freezes (read from Allen Parish, the closest normal to Reeves) — 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
MeasuredReeves 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 Reeves is in
Reeves sits in the South Central Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Reeves's own centroid rather than borrowed from Allen Parish.
What Grows in Reeves
Every plant below cleared Reeves'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 Reeves?
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 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 6 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 8 — 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 Reeves
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Reeves. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Al-32Nitrate · 1600 ft
- C&J GulfUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Al-271Nitrate · 2400 ft
- Nettie HeintzUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- The FrontUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- DOLLAR GENERAL #11635Brownfields · 1.7 mi
- TRUNKLINE GAS COMPANY - LONGVILLE 303A GATEBrownfields · 3.5 mi
- Al-294Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- Fredrick LapointUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Be-430Nitrate · 6.3 mi
- Mrs A W MillerUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.3 mi
- BEAUREGARD WATER WORKS DIST #3PFAS · 6.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Reeves'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 Reeves.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Reeves
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Reeves
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Reeves, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Reeves. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about 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 Reeves
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 Reeves average
Your land is one point inside Reeves
Everything above resolves to Reeves as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Allen 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 Reeves Average
Reeves Average
- ●USDA Zones 9a, averaged across Reeves
- ●One soil character for all of Reeves
- ●Frost dates read at Reeves's scale: Feb 6 to Dec 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Reeves's 9a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Reeves
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Reeves, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Reeves averages can't show:
We read public map data around Reeves — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Reeves average
How we know this about Reeves
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 Allen 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 Reeves
When does frost risk typically end in Reeves?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Reeves typically lands around Feb 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Reeves?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Reeves typically arrives around Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 24, so the watching starts about Nov 8 — about 305 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Reeves?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Reeves sees about 305 frost-free days — roughly Feb 6 through Dec 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 27 to Nov 24, about 270 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Reeves?
The federal record around Reeves shows 35 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (12), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Reeves?
From about Nov 8 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Reeves's scale — its 9a band and its 305-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Reeves'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 Reeves’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Reeves's own scale — the 1,547 acres it covers and 35 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Reeves's own USDA hardiness band, zones 9aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 35 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Reeves, the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Reeves's boundary and the 1,547 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 Reeves's own centroid, the South Central PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Reeves has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Allen Parish
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Reeves's 1,547 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Allen County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Allen 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 Allen County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Reeves's 1,547 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Reeves you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,547 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.3 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 Reeves-wide figureread your own land →
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