French Settlement, LA 70449 Frost Dates
French Settlement, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/09, roughly 165 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 308 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 French Settlement, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until French Settlement's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
French Settlement against the rest of the dataset
About 308 days separate French Settlement's last and first frost, putting it 3,666 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 146 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70449's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around French Settlement's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in French Settlement can differ from the 70449 normal.