Shreveport, LA 71101 Frost Dates
71101, near Shreveport, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 268 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 Shreveport, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Shreveport's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Shreveport against the rest of the dataset
Shreveport's growing season runs about 268 days, ranking 5,728 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 373 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71101: local microclimates, on what one yard in Shreveport can differ from the 71101 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Shreveport's frost date answer different questions.