Baldwin, LA 70514 Frost Dates
Baldwin, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 167 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/08, roughly 303 days after the last spring frost.
Baldwin sits in USDA Zone 9b (25 to 30°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
With roughly 15 weeks until Baldwin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/11 isn't a guarantee
02/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baldwin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 303 frost-free days, Baldwin places 3,788 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 174 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70514's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Baldwin can differ from the 70514 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9b and Baldwin's frost date answer different questions.