Stonewall, LA 71115 Frost Dates
71115, near Stonewall, LA: the frost window
Around 03/06 is the usual last spring frost, about 190 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/18, roughly 256 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 Stonewall, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Stonewall's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/06 isn't a guarantee
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/26 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Stonewall against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 256 frost-free days, Stonewall places 6,823 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 548 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71115: local microclimates, on what one yard in Stonewall can differ from the 71115 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Stonewall's frost date answer different questions.