Lillie, LA 71256 Frost Dates
Lillie, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 230 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 Lillie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Lillie'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
03/24 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lillie against the rest of the dataset
About 230 days separate Lillie's last and first frost, putting it 10,486 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 691 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71256's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lillie can differ from the 71256 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Lillie's frost date answer different questions.