Bossier City, LA 71113 Frost Dates
71113, near Bossier City, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. 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 Bossier City 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
Bossier City'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Bossier City against the rest of the dataset
About 246 days separate Bossier City's last and first frost, putting it 7,906 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 615 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71113: the frost range, on how to read the range around Bossier City's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Bossier City can differ from the 71113 normal.