New Roads, LA 70736 Frost Dates
Frost dates for New Roads, LA, ZIP 70736
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/19, roughly 175 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/05, about 292 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts New Roads in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around New Roads has about 14 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 New Roads's last frost
02/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/21 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/14 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How New Roads compares
At roughly 292 frost-free days, New Roads places 4,354 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 203 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and New Roads's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around New Roads's dates instead of trusting one.