Central, LA 70831 Frost Dates
70831, near Central, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/25, about 181 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 276 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 Central, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Central'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 Central's last frost
02/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/29 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Central against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 276 frost-free days, Central places 5,059 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 272 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70831: the frost range, on how to read the range around Central's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Central can differ from the 70831 normal.