Tickfaw, LA 70466 Frost Dates
70466, near Tickfaw, LA: the frost window
Around 03/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 192 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Tickfaw 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
Tickfaw'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 Tickfaw's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 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.
Tickfaw against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 257 frost-free days, Tickfaw places 6,745 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 534 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70466: local microclimates, on what one yard in Tickfaw can differ from the 70466 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Tickfaw's frost date answer different questions.