Stonewall, LA 71047 Frost Dates
71047, near Stonewall, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/12, roughly 196 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 247 days after the last spring frost.
Stonewall sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Stonewall's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stonewall against the rest of the dataset
About 247 days separate Stonewall's last and first frost, putting it 7,836 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 613 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71047: the frost range, on how to read the range around Stonewall's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Stonewall can differ from the 71047 normal.