Montpelier, LA 70453 Frost Dates
Montpelier, LA: when does the frost end?
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Montpelier in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
With roughly 12 weeks until Montpelier's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Montpelier's last frost
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.
Montpelier against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 251 frost-free days, Montpelier places 7,406 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 596 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70453's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Montpelier's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Montpelier can differ from the 70453 normal.