Kenner, LA 70079 Frost Dates
70079, near Kenner, LA: the frost window
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.
The actual range around Kenner's last frost
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
At roughly 333 frost-free days, Kenner places 2,831 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 37 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70079: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kenner's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kenner can differ from the 70079 normal.