Lafourche Parish Heating & Cooling Services

The Lafourche Parish climate record

Read Lafourche Parish's weather the way this page reads it: through the thirty-year normals kept at NEW ORLEANS AUDUBON, LA US for the Houma metro. Those normals give the county 3,518 cooling degree days and 1,019 heating degree days a year, 64.6 inches of precipitation, 105.6 days at 90 degrees or above, 3.7 nights at or below freezing, and an average temperature of 71.8 degrees — the fixed background every system in the county works against.

Read the climate record and the county's pressure names itself. Precipitation of 64.6 inches a year at NEW ORLEANS AUDUBON, LA US, layered over 3,518 cooling degree days, means Lafourche Parish's heating and cooling is moisture management wearing a temperature costume. Homes across its 1,068 square miles ask their systems to dry the air as much as to cool it — and the systems that answer well are the ones sized, charged and drained with that double duty in mind.

Distance is the county fact the climate table leaves out. Lafourche Parish's centroid lies east of the Houma metro's centre, roughly 15 miles from the centre it is measured against, and that distance is travelled on every call routed here — out through the metro's nearer counties and into this one's 11 ZIP codes. Local knowledge in a county like this is partly a map held in the head: which roads, which communities, which end of the county a call is coming from.

The ZIP list is the county's working map. Lafourche Parish carries 11 codes, running from 70301 through 70355 in the middle of the list to 70394 at its end, and every code on it is a small housing census of its own — the building decades, the system generations, the duct materials of its streets. Heating and cooling work routed by those codes meets the county in slices, and the slices differ more than the county's shared climate record would suggest.

Neighbouring counties are the honest context for Lafourche Parish's figures. Its 1,068 square miles sit inside a wider spread of county ground — Terrebonne Parish are among the 1 neighbours on its record — and its position east of the Houma metro's centre places it on its own side of that spread. A system near the county's edge may be closer to a neighbouring county's centre than to its own; the pages are organised by county because the data is, and the links between them carry the rest of the picture.

Two numbers organise Lafourche Parish's heating and cooling year: 1,019 and 3,518, the heating and cooling degree days in the normals at NEW ORLEANS AUDUBON, LA US. Whichever runs larger decides the county's dominant pressure — here, a humid one — and with it the season a household should prepare for first. The supporting figures fill in the texture: 71.8 degrees as the year's average temperature, 105.6 hot days, 3.7 freezing nights, 64.6 inches of precipitation. Every paragraph on this page is, in the end, a reading of those six numbers on this county's ground.

Communities and housing in Lafourche Parish

The county's place list tells its own story. Thibodaux (15,792 residents) is the largest of the 8 communities the record names for Lafourche Parish, with Raceland (10,517 residents) behind it and Galliano and Larose further down the list. A technician working this county works all of those places in a single week, and the systems change character with the address: the era a community was built in decides whether the call is about an ageing furnace, a condenser at the end of its summers, or ductwork that predates the equipment it now serves.

Ownership writes part of the diary too. Across the Houma metro, 75.8% of households own their homes, and owner-occupiers and landlords keep different maintenance calendars — owners tending to plan replacements in the shoulder seasons, rented homes more often meeting their systems at the point of failure. Lafourche Parish shares that metro pattern across its 11 ZIP codes and its listed communities, and it shows in the timing of the calls as much as in their content: planned work where the owners live, urgent work where they do not.

There is a reason the coverage on this page is described county-first. Heating and cooling demand is generated house by house, and houses sit in counties: in Lafourche Parish's case, across 1,068 square miles that hold 8 listed communities and 11 ZIP codes, east of the Houma metro's centre. The metro frame matters — the station, the housing eras, the problem ranking all come from it — but the county is where the frame touches the ground, and the ground is where the systems are.

Our role in Lafourche Parish, stated plainly

TempReach USA is not an HVAC company. We employ no heating or cooling technicians, we run no service trucks, and we do not carry out HVAC work of any kind. This website and its call center exist for one purpose: to connect homeowners with independent local heating and cooling professionals who serve their area. When you call the number on this site, your call is routed to such a professional. From that point, everything about the job belongs to that professional and to you: the assessment, the work itself, the scheduling, what you are charged, and the terms of any agreement you reach. The professional who takes your job is solely responsible for it. The technician who arrives at your home runs their own business; they are not an employee, agent or subcontractor of TempReach USA. Our part is the information on these pages — assembled from Census Bureau housing data and NOAA climate records for each metro — and the routing of your call. We state this plainly on purpose: you should know exactly who you are hiring before anyone picks up a wrench or a gauge.