Logansport, LA 71049 Frost Dates
71049, near Logansport, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 255 days after the last spring frost.
Logansport 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
Logansport's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/13 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.
Logansport against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 255 frost-free days, Logansport places 6,952 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 555 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71049: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Logansport's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Logansport's dates instead of trusting one.