Downsville, LA 71234 Frost Dates
71234, near Downsville, LA: the frost window
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
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 Downsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Downsville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Downsville's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Downsville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Downsville places 11,972 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 704 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71234: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Downsville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Downsville's dates instead of trusting one.