Lutcher, LA 70743 Frost Dates
70743, near Lutcher, LA: the frost window
Around 02/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 165 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 308 days after the last spring frost.
Lutcher 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
Lutcher's growing season runs out in roughly 15 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lutcher against the rest of the dataset
About 308 days separate Lutcher's last and first frost, putting it 3,655 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 135 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70743: local microclimates, on what one yard in Lutcher can differ from the 70743 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Lutcher's frost date answer different questions.