Farmerville, LA 71241 Frost Dates
71241, near Farmerville, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
Farmerville 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
Farmerville'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.
The actual range around Farmerville'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.
Farmerville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 246 frost-free days, Farmerville places 7,930 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 621 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71241: local microclimates, on what one yard in Farmerville can differ from the 71241 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Farmerville's frost date answer different questions.