Evergreen, LA 71356 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Evergreen, LA, ZIP 71356
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/28, about 184 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/24, about 270 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 Evergreen, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Evergreen has about 13 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 01/31 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/21 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Evergreen compares
At roughly 270 frost-free days, Evergreen places 5,631 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 366 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Evergreen's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Evergreen's dates instead of trusting one.