Baton Rouge, LA 70804 Frost Dates
70804, near Baton Rouge, 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 11/26, roughly 272 days after the last spring frost.
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 Baton Rouge, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Baton Rouge'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.
Why 02/28 isn't a guarantee
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.
Baton Rouge against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 272 frost-free days, Baton Rouge places 5,311 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 315 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70804: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Baton Rouge's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Baton Rouge's dates instead of trusting one.