Pineville, LA 71360 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pineville, LA, ZIP 71360
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 02/27, roughly 183 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/27, about 274 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 Pineville, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Pineville 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
02/27 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. 03/18 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pineville compares
At roughly 274 frost-free days, Pineville places 5,146 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 310 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Pineville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one.