Sorrento, LA 70707 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Sorrento, LA?
Around 02/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 177 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/05, about 291 frost-free days later.
Sorrento 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 14 weeks of growing season left in Sorrento before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Sorrento's last frost
02/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sorrento compares
At roughly 291 frost-free days, Sorrento places 4,457 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 232 of 710.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Sorrento's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Sorrento can differ from the 70707 normal.