Varnado, LA 70426 Frost Dates
70426, near Varnado, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 265 days after the last spring frost.
Varnado sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Varnado's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Varnado against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 265 frost-free days, Varnado places 6,005 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 470 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70426: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Varnado's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Varnado's dates instead of trusting one.