Gramercy, LA 70069 Frost Dates
70069, near Gramercy, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/09, about 165 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 308 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Gramercy in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Gramercy'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
02/09 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 3,661 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 141 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70069: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Gramercy's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Gramercy's dates instead of trusting one.