Covington, LA 70435 Frost Dates
70435, near Covington, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/12, about 196 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 253 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 Covington, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Covington'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 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
Covington's growing season runs about 253 days, ranking 7,112 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 577 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70435: the frost range, on how to read the range around Covington's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Covington can differ from the 70435 normal.