Pineville, LA 71328 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pineville, LA, ZIP 71328
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 239 frost-free days later.
Pineville 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Pineville has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pineville's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pineville compares
Pineville's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,795 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 653 of 710.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 71328 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Pineville's frost date answer different questions.