Mooringsport, LA 71060 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Mooringsport, LA, ZIP 71060
Around 03/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 190 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/19, about 257 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Mooringsport in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Mooringsport has about 12 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Mooringsport's last frost
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/27 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Mooringsport compares
At roughly 257 frost-free days, Mooringsport places 6,739 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 530 of 710.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Mooringsport can differ from the 71060 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Mooringsport's frost date answer different questions.