Franklinton, LA 70429 Frost Dates
70429, near Franklinton, 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.
Franklinton 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
Franklinton'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.
The actual range around Franklinton'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.
Franklinton against the rest of the dataset
About 265 days separate Franklinton's last and first frost, putting it 5,994 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 467 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70429: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Franklinton's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Franklinton's dates instead of trusting one.