Lockport, LA 70377 Frost Dates
Lockport, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 164 days away. 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 Lockport 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
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.
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.
Lockport against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 311 frost-free days, Lockport places 3,538 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 81 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70377's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lockport can differ from the 70377 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Lockport's frost date answer different questions.