Woodworth, LA 71485 Frost Dates
71485, near Woodworth, LA: the frost window
Around 03/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 185 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 267 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 Woodworth, not a forecast for this year.
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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/01 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 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Woodworth against the rest of the dataset
Woodworth's growing season runs about 267 days, ranking 5,864 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 443 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71485: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Woodworth's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Woodworth's dates instead of trusting one.