Rodessa, LA 71069 Frost Dates
71069, near Rodessa, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rodessa 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
Rodessa's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Rodessa's last frost
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rodessa against the rest of the dataset
About 257 days separate Rodessa's last and first frost, putting it 6,759 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 540 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71069: local microclimates, on what one yard in Rodessa can differ from the 71069 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Rodessa's frost date answer different questions.