Greensburg, LA 70441 Frost Dates
70441, near Greensburg, LA: the frost window
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 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 Greensburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Greensburg'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.
Why 03/13 isn't a guarantee
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Greensburg against the rest of the dataset
About 251 days separate Greensburg's last and first frost, putting it 7,385 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 593 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70441: the frost range, on how to read the range around Greensburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Greensburg can differ from the 70441 normal.