Bogalusa, LA 70427 Frost Dates
Bogalusa, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 186 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 265 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Bogalusa, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Bogalusa's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bogalusa's last frost
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.
Bogalusa against the rest of the dataset
About 265 days separate Bogalusa's last and first frost, putting it 5,977 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 466 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70427's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bogalusa can differ from the 70427 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Bogalusa's frost date answer different questions.