Jean Lafitte, LA 70067 Frost Dates
70067, near Jean Lafitte, LA: the frost window
Around 02/10 is the usual last spring frost, about 166 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/12, roughly 306 days after the last spring frost.
Jean Lafitte 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
Jean Lafitte's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jean Lafitte against the rest of the dataset
Jean Lafitte's growing season runs about 306 days, ranking 3,708 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 164 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70067: local microclimates, on what one yard in Jean Lafitte can differ from the 70067 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Jean Lafitte's frost date answer different questions.