Carencro, LA 70507 Frost Dates
70507, near Carencro, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/26, about 182 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 279 days after the last spring frost.
Carencro sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Carencro's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Carencro's last frost
02/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carencro against the rest of the dataset
About 279 days separate Carencro's last and first frost, putting it 4,876 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 249 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70507: the frost range, on how to read the range around Carencro's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Carencro can differ from the 70507 normal.