Simmesport, LA 71316 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Simmesport, LA?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/06, roughly 190 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/22, about 261 frost-free days later.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Simmesport, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 12 weeks of growing season left in Simmesport before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Simmesport's last frost
03/06 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/09 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Simmesport compares
At roughly 261 frost-free days, Simmesport places 6,427 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 498 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 9a and Simmesport's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Simmesport's dates instead of trusting one.