Grambling, LA 71245 Frost Dates
Grambling, LA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 248 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 Grambling, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Grambling's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Grambling's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/18 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Grambling against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 248 frost-free days, Grambling places 7,691 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 605 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71245's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Grambling's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Grambling can differ from the 71245 normal.