Elizabeth, LA 70656 Frost Dates
70656, near Elizabeth, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/03, roughly 187 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
Elizabeth 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
Elizabeth'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Elizabeth against the rest of the dataset
Elizabeth's growing season runs about 268 days, ranking 5,821 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 421 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70656: the frost range, on how to read the range around Elizabeth's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Elizabeth can differ from the 70656 normal.