Franklin, LA 70538 Frost Dates
70538, near Franklin, LA: the frost window
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.
Franklin 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
Franklin's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Franklin's last frost
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.
Franklin against the rest of the dataset
Franklin's growing season runs about 303 days, ranking 3,783 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 171 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70538: the frost range, on how to read the range around Franklin's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Franklin can differ from the 70538 normal.