Jennings, LA 70546 Frost Dates
70546, near Jennings, 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 Jennings, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Jennings'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.
The actual range around Jennings's last frost
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.
Jennings against the rest of the dataset
About 292 days separate Jennings's last and first frost, putting it 4,350 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 202 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70546: the frost range, on how to read the range around Jennings's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Jennings can differ from the 70546 normal.