Lockport, LA 70302 Frost Dates
Lockport, LA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/08, about 164 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/19, roughly 311 days after the last spring frost.
Lockport 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
With roughly 16 weeks until Lockport's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Lockport's last frost
02/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/11 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lockport against the rest of the dataset
About 311 days separate Lockport's last and first frost, putting it 3,533 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 76 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70302's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lockport can differ from the 70302 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Lockport's frost date answer different questions.