Abbeville, LA 70511 Frost Dates
Abbeville, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 182 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 279 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Abbeville 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 13 weeks until Abbeville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Abbeville'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.
Abbeville against the rest of the dataset
About 279 days separate Abbeville's last and first frost, putting it 4,877 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 250 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70511's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Abbeville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Abbeville's dates instead of trusting one.