Woodworth, LA 71359 Frost Dates
71359, near Woodworth, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/03, roughly 187 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 263 days after the last spring frost.
Woodworth 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
Woodworth's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/03 isn't a guarantee
03/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodworth against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 263 frost-free days, Woodworth places 6,121 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 483 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71359: local microclimates, on what one yard in Woodworth can differ from the 71359 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Woodworth's frost date answer different questions.