Lockport, LA 70394 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Lockport, LA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/05, roughly 161 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/14, about 311 frost-free days later.
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 Lockport, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 15 weeks of growing season left in Lockport before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Lockport's last frost
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/03 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Lockport compares
At roughly 311 frost-free days, Lockport places 3,539 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 82 of 710.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Lockport can differ from the 70394 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9b and Lockport's frost date answer different questions.