Rosedale, LA 70772 Frost Dates
70772, near Rosedale, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
Rosedale 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
Rosedale'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 Rosedale's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rosedale against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 268 frost-free days, Rosedale places 5,809 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 413 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70772: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Rosedale's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Rosedale's dates instead of trusting one.