Baker, LA 70714 Frost Dates
70714, near Baker, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/25, about 181 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 276 days after the last spring frost.
Baker 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
Baker'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.
The actual range around Baker's last frost
02/25 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 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Baker against the rest of the dataset
About 276 days separate Baker's last and first frost, putting it 5,073 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 284 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70714: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Baker's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Baker's dates instead of trusting one.