New Iberia, LA 70563 Frost Dates
70563, near New Iberia, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/14, about 170 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 298 days after the last spring frost.
New Iberia sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
New Iberia'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 New Iberia's last frost
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/11 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.
New Iberia against the rest of the dataset
About 298 days separate New Iberia's last and first frost, putting it 4,201 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 190 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70563: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and New Iberia's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New Iberia's dates instead of trusting one.