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Kenner, LA 70062 Frost Dates

70062, near Kenner, LA: the frost window

Zone 9b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 01/30, roughly 155 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/31, roughly 333 days after the last spring frost.

Kenner sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.

Stretching the season past the first frost

Kenner's growing season runs out in roughly 18 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.

Why 01/30 isn't a guarantee

01/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 12/29 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.

Kenner against the rest of the dataset

Kenner's growing season runs about 333 days, ranking 2,828 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 34 of 710.

Learn more

Two guides worth reading on 70062: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Kenner's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Kenner's dates instead of trusting one.