Cheneyville, LA 71330 Frost Dates
71330, near Cheneyville, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/28, roughly 184 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
Cheneyville 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
Cheneyville's growing season runs out in roughly 13 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 02/28 isn't a guarantee
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 03/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cheneyville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 270 frost-free days, Cheneyville places 5,624 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 361 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71330: local microclimates, on what one yard in Cheneyville can differ from the 71330 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Cheneyville's frost date answer different questions.