Jackson, LA 70730 Frost Dates
Jackson, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/13 is the usual last spring frost, about 197 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 251 days after the last spring frost.
Jackson 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Jackson's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Jackson's last frost
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Jackson against the rest of the dataset
Jackson's growing season runs about 251 days, ranking 7,330 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 590 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70730's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Jackson's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Jackson's dates instead of trusting one.