Shreveport, LA 71103 Frost Dates
Shreveport, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 268 days after the last spring frost.
Shreveport 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 13 weeks until Shreveport's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
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
At roughly 268 frost-free days, Shreveport places 5,729 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 374 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71103's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Shreveport can differ from the 71103 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Shreveport's frost date answer different questions.