Jena, LA 71342 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Jena, LA, ZIP 71342
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 238 frost-free days later.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Jena, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Jena has about 11 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 Jena's last frost
03/19 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. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Jena compares
About 238 days separate Jena's last and first frost, putting it 8,971 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 658 of 710.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Jena's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Jena can differ from the 71342 normal.