Ferriday, LA 71334 Frost Dates
71334, near Ferriday, LA: the frost window
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
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 Ferriday, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ferriday'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.
The actual range around Ferriday's last frost
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.
Ferriday against the rest of the dataset
About 237 days separate Ferriday's last and first frost, putting it 9,113 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 668 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71334: local microclimates, on what one yard in Ferriday can differ from the 71334 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Ferriday's frost date answer different questions.