Rosepine, LA 70639 Frost Dates
70639, near Rosepine, LA: the frost window
Around 03/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 193 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 253 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 Rosepine, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Rosepine'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.
The actual range around Rosepine's last frost
03/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rosepine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 253 frost-free days, Rosepine places 7,162 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 579 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 70639: the frost range, on how to read the range around Rosepine's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Rosepine can differ from the 70639 normal.