Scott, LA 70583 Frost Dates
70583, near Scott, LA: the frost window
Around 02/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 182 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/28, roughly 279 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 Scott, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Scott's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/26 isn't a guarantee
02/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Scott against the rest of the dataset
About 279 days separate Scott's last and first frost, putting it 4,878 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 251 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70583: local microclimates, on what one yard in Scott can differ from the 70583 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Scott's frost date answer different questions.