Gonzales, LA 70728 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Gonzales, LA, ZIP 70728
Around 02/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 165 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/13, about 308 frost-free days later.
Gonzales 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
Zone 9a around Gonzales has about 15 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Gonzales's last frost
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/12 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/10 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Gonzales compares
At roughly 308 frost-free days, Gonzales places 3,649 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 129 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Gonzales's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Gonzales's dates instead of trusting one.