Kentwood, LA 70444 Frost Dates
70444, near Kentwood, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/07, roughly 191 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Kentwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kentwood'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 Kentwood's last frost
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/10 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kentwood against the rest of the dataset
Kentwood's growing season runs about 257 days, ranking 6,702 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 519 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70444: the frost range, on how to read the range around Kentwood's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Kentwood can differ from the 70444 normal.