Georgetown, LA 71432 Frost Dates
Georgetown, LA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/19, about 203 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 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 Georgetown, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Georgetown's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Georgetown against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 238 frost-free days, Georgetown places 9,036 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 663 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71432's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Georgetown can differ from the 71432 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Georgetown's frost date answer different questions.