Natchez, LA 71452 Frost Dates
71452, near Natchez, 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 12/01, roughly 275 days after the last spring frost.
Natchez 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
Natchez's growing season runs out in roughly 14 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 03/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Natchez against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 275 frost-free days, Natchez places 5,132 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 305 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71452: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Natchez's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Natchez's dates instead of trusting one.