Junction City, LA 71079 Frost Dates
71079, near Junction City, LA: the frost window
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Junction City, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Junction City's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 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.
Junction City against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Junction City's last and first frost, putting it 12,579 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 707 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71079: the frost range, on how to read the range around Junction City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Junction City can differ from the 71079 normal.