New Roads, LA 70783 Frost Dates
Frost dates for New Roads, LA, ZIP 70783
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/19, about 175 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 12/05, about 292 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 New Roads, not a forecast for this year.
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 4,360 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 209 of 710.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around New Roads's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in New Roads can differ from the 70783 normal.