Pleasant Hill, LA 71065 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pleasant Hill, LA, ZIP 71065
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 236 frost-free days later.
Pleasant Hill 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Pleasant Hill has about 10 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pleasant Hill compares
About 236 days separate Pleasant Hill's last and first frost, putting it 9,504 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 678 of 710.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Pleasant Hill can differ from the 71065 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pleasant Hill's frost date answer different questions.