Sorrento, LA 70774 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Sorrento, LA, ZIP 70774
Around 02/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 177 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/05, about 291 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Sorrento, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Sorrento 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/23 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/15 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Sorrento compares
At roughly 291 frost-free days, Sorrento places 4,460 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 235 of 710.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Sorrento can differ from the 70774 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Sorrento's frost date answer different questions.