West Monroe, LA 71207 Frost Dates
Frost dates for West Monroe, LA, ZIP 71207
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/15, about 253 frost-free days later.
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 West Monroe, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around West Monroe has about 11 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around West Monroe's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/16 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How West Monroe compares
At roughly 253 frost-free days, West Monroe places 7,101 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 567 of 710.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in West Monroe can differ from the 71207 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and West Monroe's frost date answer different questions.