Golden Meadow, LA 70345 Frost Dates
Golden Meadow, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/08, roughly 164 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/19, roughly 311 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Golden Meadow, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 16 weeks until Golden Meadow's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Golden Meadow against the rest of the dataset
About 311 days separate Golden Meadow's last and first frost, putting it 3,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 83 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70345's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Golden Meadow's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Golden Meadow's dates instead of trusting one.