Arcadia, LA 71001 Frost Dates
71001, near Arcadia, LA: the frost window
Around 03/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 203 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Arcadia, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Arcadia's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Arcadia's last frost
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Arcadia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 237 frost-free days, Arcadia places 9,117 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 669 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71001: the frost range, on how to read the range around Arcadia's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Arcadia can differ from the 71001 normal.