Lake Charles, LA 70607 Frost Dates
70607, near Lake Charles, LA: the frost window
Around 02/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 170 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/07, roughly 299 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Lake Charles in Zone 9b (25 to 30°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Lake Charles'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 Lake Charles's last frost
02/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/16 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.
Lake Charles against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 299 frost-free days, Lake Charles places 4,151 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 181 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70607: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lake Charles's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lake Charles can differ from the 70607 normal.