Benton, LA 71149 Frost Dates
Benton, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. 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 Benton, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Benton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Benton's last frost
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.
Benton against the rest of the dataset
About 268 days separate Benton's last and first frost, putting it 5,786 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 394 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71149's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Benton's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Benton can differ from the 71149 normal.