Heflin, LA 71039 Frost Dates
Heflin, LA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/17, about 201 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 241 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 Heflin, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Heflin's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Heflin's last frost
03/17 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 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Heflin against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Heflin places 8,639 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 650 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71039's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Heflin's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Heflin's dates instead of trusting one.