Franklinton, LA 70450 Frost Dates
70450, near Franklinton, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Franklinton in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Franklinton's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Franklinton's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Franklinton against the rest of the dataset
About 245 days separate Franklinton's last and first frost, putting it 8,025 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 628 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70450: local microclimates, on what one yard in Franklinton can differ from the 70450 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Franklinton's frost date answer different questions.