Pleasant Hill, LA 71063 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Pleasant Hill, LA?
Around 03/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 192 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/20, about 255 frost-free days later.
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 Pleasant Hill, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Pleasant Hill before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Pleasant Hill's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/13 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/01 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pleasant Hill compares
At roughly 255 frost-free days, Pleasant Hill places 6,960 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 556 of 710.
Learn more
local microclimates covers what one yard in Pleasant Hill can differ from the 71063 normal. zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8b and Pleasant Hill's frost date answer different questions.