Gramercy, LA 70049 Frost Dates
Gramercy, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/09, roughly 165 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 308 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°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 Gramercy, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Gramercy's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Gramercy's last frost
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Gramercy against the rest of the dataset
About 308 days separate Gramercy's last and first frost, putting it 3,657 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 137 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70049's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Gramercy's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Gramercy can differ from the 70049 normal.