Bernice, LA 71222 Frost Dates
Bernice, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
Bernice 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Bernice's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bernice's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bernice against the rest of the dataset
About 246 days separate Bernice's last and first frost, putting it 7,934 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 623 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71222's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bernice can differ from the 71222 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Bernice's frost date answer different questions.