West Monroe, LA 71213 Frost Dates
71213, near West Monroe, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/08, about 192 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 253 days after the last spring frost.
West Monroe 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
West Monroe'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.
Why 03/08 isn't a guarantee
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
West Monroe against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 253 frost-free days, West Monroe places 7,104 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 570 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71213: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and West Monroe's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around West Monroe's dates instead of trusting one.