Moreauville, LA 71339 Frost Dates
71339, near Moreauville, LA: the frost window
Around 02/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 184 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 270 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Moreauville in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Moreauville'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.
Moreauville against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 270 frost-free days, Moreauville places 5,612 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 357 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71339: local microclimates, on what one yard in Moreauville can differ from the 71339 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Moreauville's frost date answer different questions.