Ringgold, LA 71068 Frost Dates
Ringgold, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/24 is the usual last spring frost, about 208 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Ringgold in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Ringgold's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ringgold's last frost
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ringgold against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 229 frost-free days, Ringgold places 10,625 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 692 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71068's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Ringgold's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Ringgold can differ from the 71068 normal.