Venice, Louisiana, sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Crops well matched to these conditions include okra, meyer lemon, california poppy, and artichoke — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Venice, 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 Venice 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 Venice — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Venice — the short answer
Venice, Louisiana: USDA zone 10a, about 340 days between hard freezes, across 642 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 10a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Jan 14
- 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
- ~340
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 642 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 10a is Venice's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Venice's 340-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Venice
Each reading below is measured for Venice itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredVenice runs about 340 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
MeasuredVenice sits in USDA hardiness zone 10a.
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 Venice is in
Venice sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Venice's own centroid rather than borrowed from Plaquemines Parish.
What Grows in Venice
Every plant below cleared Venice's own zone 10a and its 340-day season. Each card opens that plant's Louisiana profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Venice?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. 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 14 (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. 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 Venice
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Venice. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- S & L ENTERPRISES INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- CONOCO INC VENICE SHOREBASEBrownfields · 1600 ft
- BAKER OIL TOOLS FISHINGBrownfields · 1600 ft
- DAVID WADE INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- SHELL OFFSHORE INC MAIN PASS BLOCK 69Brownfields · 1600 ft
- AMERICAN WELDING INCBrownfields · 1600 ft
- Vinice BaseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- US EPA HURRICANE KATRINABrownfields · 1700 ft
- Old Packard Truck LinesUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Quick Serve GTO LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- COMPUTALOG WIRELINE SVCS INCBrownfields · 2400 ft
- MORGAN CITY RENTALSBrownfields · 2500 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Venice'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 Venice.
Total Sites
104
within ~10 miles of Venice
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
6 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Venice
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Venice
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Venice, Brownfields runs higher than the national average — 77 sites within ~10 miles of Venice. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Venice
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 Venice average
Your land is one point inside Venice
Everything above resolves to Venice as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 642 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 Venice Average
Venice Average
- ●USDA Zones 10a, averaged across Venice
- ●One soil character for all of Venice
- ●Frost dates read at Venice's scale: Jan 14 to Dec 20
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Venice's 10a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Venice
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Venice, Louisiana — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Venice averages can't show:
We read public map data around Venice — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Venice average
How we know this about Venice
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 Venice’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 Venice
When does frost risk typically end in Venice?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Venice typically lands around Jan 14, 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 4.
When is the first frost in Venice?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Venice 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 340 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Venice?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Venice sees about 340 frost-free days — roughly Jan 14 through Dec 20, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Feb 4 to Dec 6, about 305 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Venice?
The federal record around Venice shows 104 documented sites, mostly Brownfields entries (77), the nearest Brownfields 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 Venice?
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 Venice's scale — its 10a band and its 340-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Venice'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 Venice’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Venice's own scale — its own ~340-day season between 28°F freezes, the 642 acres it covers and 104 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Venice's own USDA hardiness band, zones 10aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Venice's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Jan 14 and Dec 20 and the ~340-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 104 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Venice, the closest Brownfields record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Venice's boundary and the 642 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 10a and a ~340-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Venice's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Venice's 642 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 Venice's 642 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Venice you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 642 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields 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 Venice-wide figureread your own land →