Marksville, LA 71323 Frost Dates
71323, near Marksville, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Marksville sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Marksville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/16 isn't a guarantee
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Marksville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Marksville places 8,821 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 654 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71323: local microclimates, on what one yard in Marksville can differ from the 71323 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Marksville's frost date answer different questions.