Plain Dealing, LA 71064 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Plain Dealing, LA, ZIP 71064
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/14, about 246 frost-free days later.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Plain Dealing 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 Plain Dealing has about 11 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 Plain Dealing's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/22 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 Plain Dealing compares
At roughly 246 frost-free days, Plain Dealing places 7,935 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 624 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Plain Dealing's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Plain Dealing's dates instead of trusting one.