Orleans Parish Heating & Cooling Services

The Orleans Parish climate record

Every climate number on this page comes from one record: the NOAA 1991-2020 normals at NEW ORLEANS ALVIN CALLENDER FL, LA US, the primary metro's station, read here for Orleans Parish. The record's shape is 1,425 heating degree days set against 2,615 cooling degree days, 63.8 inches of precipitation in an average year, 64.4 days reaching 90 degrees or above and 10.8 nights at or below freezing, with an average temperature of 68.2 degrees across the year.

Position sharpens Orleans Parish's moisture problem. The county lies north of the New Orleans metro's centre, roughly 17 miles from the metro's centre, and the air that reaches its far edge has crossed the whole New Orleans metro before it arrives — carrying the season's humidity into 170 square miles of homes whose systems must wring it out again, through 64.4 hot days a year. Neighbouring ground — St. James Parish, St. John the Baptist Parish, Jefferson Parish are among the counties around it — reads the same record; the wringing, house by house, is local.

The county's ground shapes the work in one more way: 170 square miles is a lot of roofs for a service map to hold, and Orleans Parish's homes divide between its listed communities — New Orleans, Marrero — and the roads between them. A technician routed here is working a county, not a street: the drive between calls is part of the diary, and the systems at each end of it were fitted in the decades those communities were built.

Count the coverage from the codes upward: 70112, 70113 and 70114 are the first codes on Orleans Parish's list of 20, spread across its 170 square miles in Louisiana. No two of those codes hold quite the same housing — one may be a settled community's streets, the next newer subdivisions, the next open county ground — so the same climate record produces a different run of calls inside each. The full list is printed on this page; the diary is written code by code.

Orleans Parish sits alongside St. James Parish, St. John the Baptist Parish, Jefferson Parish in the New Orleans area — 6 neighbouring counties share its coverage map in all, and the borders between them are lines on a map rather than changes in the weather. The same station record travels across those borders, the same housing decades appear on both sides, and a technician's ground here is really the cluster: this county and its neighbours, read together, with this page keeping Orleans Parish's own share of the picture separate.

Consider what one year asks of a system in Orleans Parish: a cooling season measured at 2,615 degree days, a heating season at 1,425, 64.4 days of serious heat and 10.8 freezing nights, and 63.8 inches of precipitation working on every outdoor unit through all of it. No single figure is remarkable; the combination is the county's climate, and it is the combination a system has to survive for fifteen or twenty years. The service patterns described on this page are that arithmetic, playing out across 170 square miles of housing.

Communities and housing in Orleans Parish

Read Orleans Parish through its record and two facts stand together: its named communities are New Orleans, Marrero, and its land runs to 170 square miles. Between those facts sits the county's real housing — homes in the named places, homes along the roads the record does not name, all of them heating and cooling under the climate recorded at NEW ORLEANS ALVIN CALLENDER FL, LA US. This page keeps both facts in view, because a county page that only described its named places would miss most of the county it is about.

Look at the second era as well as the first and Orleans Parish's stock comes into focus. After the dominant band — homes built between 1960 and 1979, 33.5% of the metro's total — the next share was built before 1960, at 31.2%. Between them those two bands account for most of the systems a technician will open in this county, and they are different machines in different houses: the earlier band's equipment fitted into older envelopes, the later band's into the standards of its own decade. The county's diary is the two bands, interleaved street by street.

A reader who only had Orleans Parish's identifying figures would already know its shape: a county of 170 square miles in Louisiana, 20 ZIP codes, 2 communities on the record, sitting north of the New Orleans metro's centre. What the figures cannot say alone is how the ground feels to work — the drives between calls, the mix of decades in the housing, the season that runs taller — and that is what the rest of this page is for, section by section.

Our role in Orleans 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.