Kinder, LA 70648 Frost Dates
70648, near Kinder, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/01, about 185 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 267 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 Kinder, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Kinder'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 03/01 isn't a guarantee
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Kinder against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 267 frost-free days, Kinder places 5,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 442 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70648: local microclimates, on what one yard in Kinder can differ from the 70648 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Kinder's frost date answer different questions.