Bonita, LA 71223 Frost Dates
Bonita, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bonita in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Bonita's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bonita's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bonita against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 241 frost-free days, Bonita places 8,646 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 651 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71223's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bonita can differ from the 71223 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Bonita's frost date answer different questions.