Merryville, LA 70653 Frost Dates
Merryville, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/01, roughly 185 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 269 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 Merryville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Merryville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Merryville's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Merryville against the rest of the dataset
Merryville's growing season runs about 269 days, ranking 5,685 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 370 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70653's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Merryville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Merryville can differ from the 70653 normal.