Abbeville, LA 70575 Frost Dates
70575, near Abbeville, LA: the frost window
Around 02/17 is the usual last spring frost, about 173 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/05, roughly 298 days after the last spring frost.
Abbeville 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
Abbeville'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.
Why 02/17 isn't a guarantee
02/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/19 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.
Abbeville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 298 frost-free days, Abbeville places 4,207 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 192 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70575: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Abbeville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Abbeville's dates instead of trusting one.