Golden Meadow, LA 70354 Frost Dates
70354, near Golden Meadow, LA: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Golden Meadow 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
Golden Meadow's growing season runs out in roughly 16 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 Golden Meadow'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.
Golden Meadow against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 311 frost-free days, Golden Meadow places 3,541 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 84 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70354: local microclimates, on what one yard in Golden Meadow can differ from the 70354 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9b and Golden Meadow's frost date answer different questions.