Rayville, LA 71279 Frost Dates
Rayville, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/26, roughly 271 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Rayville in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Rayville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Rayville's last frost
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Rayville against the rest of the dataset
About 271 days separate Rayville's last and first frost, putting it 5,445 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 333 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71279's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Rayville can differ from the 71279 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Rayville's frost date answer different questions.