Montgomery, LA 71416 Frost Dates
Montgomery, LA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 271 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 Montgomery, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Montgomery's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Montgomery's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 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.
Montgomery against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 271 frost-free days, Montgomery places 5,463 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 339 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71416's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Montgomery's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Montgomery can differ from the 71416 normal.