Thibodaux, LA 70395 Frost Dates
70395, near Thibodaux, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/05, about 161 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 311 days after the last spring frost.
Thibodaux 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
Thibodaux's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Thibodaux against the rest of the dataset
Thibodaux's growing season runs about 311 days, ranking 3,532 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 75 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70395: the frost range, on how to read the range around Thibodaux's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Thibodaux can differ from the 70395 normal.