Rosepine, LA 70659 Frost Dates
Rosepine, LA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/08, about 192 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/21, roughly 259 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rosepine in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Rosepine's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rosepine's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rosepine against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 259 frost-free days, Rosepine places 6,595 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 505 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 70659's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Rosepine's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Rosepine can differ from the 70659 normal.