Kenner, LA 70080 Frost Dates
70080, near Kenner, LA: the frost window
Around 01/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 155 days away. 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 333 days separate Kenner's last and first frost, putting it 2,832 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 38 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70080: 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 70080 normal.