Covington, LA 70433 Frost Dates
Covington, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/12, roughly 196 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
Covington 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Covington's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Covington's last frost
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Covington against the rest of the dataset
About 253 days separate Covington's last and first frost, putting it 7,110 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 575 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70433's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Covington can differ from the 70433 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Covington's frost date answer different questions.