Arnaudville, LA 70512 Frost Dates
70512, near Arnaudville, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/23, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
Arnaudville 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
Arnaudville'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.
Why 02/28 isn't a guarantee
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arnaudville against the rest of the dataset
Arnaudville's growing season runs about 267 days, ranking 5,875 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 447 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70512: the frost range, on how to read the range around Arnaudville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Arnaudville can differ from the 70512 normal.