Sibley, LA 71073 Frost Dates
Sibley, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Sibley 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Sibley's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Sibley's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sibley against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Sibley places 8,592 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 642 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71073's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Sibley's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Sibley can differ from the 71073 normal.