Breaux Bridge, LA 70517 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Breaux Bridge, LA, ZIP 70517
Around 02/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 169 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/04, about 299 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Breaux Bridge, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Breaux Bridge has about 14 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Breaux Bridge compares
About 299 days separate Breaux Bridge's last and first frost, putting it 4,167 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 186 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Breaux Bridge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Breaux Bridge's dates instead of trusting one.