Sarepta, LA 71071 Frost Dates
71071, near Sarepta, LA: the frost window
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sarepta 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
Sarepta's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Sarepta's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sarepta against the rest of the dataset
Sarepta's growing season runs about 246 days, ranking 7,941 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 626 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71071: local microclimates, on what one yard in Sarepta can differ from the 71071 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Sarepta's frost date answer different questions.