Marksville, LA 71331 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Marksville, LA, ZIP 71331
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 239 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 Marksville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Marksville 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 Marksville'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 Marksville compares
Marksville's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,822 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 655 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Marksville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Marksville's dates instead of trusting one.