Collinston, LA 71229 Frost Dates
Collinston, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 241 days after the last spring frost.
Collinston 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 Collinston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Collinston against the rest of the dataset
About 241 days separate Collinston's last and first frost, putting it 8,629 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 647 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71229's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Collinston's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Collinston's dates instead of trusting one.