Estherwood, LA 70531 Frost Dates
70531, near Estherwood, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/19, about 175 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/04, roughly 292 days after the last spring frost.
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 Estherwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Estherwood's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Estherwood against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 292 frost-free days, Estherwood places 4,382 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 218 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70531: local microclimates, on what one yard in Estherwood can differ from the 70531 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Estherwood's frost date answer different questions.