Lecompte, LA 71346 Frost Dates
Lecompte, LA: when does the frost end?
Around 03/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 185 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
Lecompte 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
With roughly 12 weeks until Lecompte's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lecompte against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 267 frost-free days, Lecompte places 5,885 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 453 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71346's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Lecompte can differ from the 71346 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Lecompte's frost date answer different questions.