Angie, LA 39478 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Angie, LA, ZIP 39478
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 245 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Angie, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Angie has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Angie's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/08 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Angie compares
About 245 days separate Angie's last and first frost, putting it 8,072 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 629 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Angie's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Angie's dates instead of trusting one.