Simsboro, LA 71275 Frost Dates
Simsboro, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/11 is the usual last spring frost, about 195 days away. 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 Simsboro, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Simsboro's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Simsboro'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.
Simsboro against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 248 frost-free days, Simsboro places 7,722 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 608 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71275's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Simsboro's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Simsboro can differ from the 71275 normal.