Pineville, LA 71361 Frost Dates
Pineville, LA: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/27, about 183 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 274 days after the last spring frost.
Pineville 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 13 weeks until Pineville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pineville's last frost
02/27 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 03/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pineville against the rest of the dataset
Pineville's growing season runs about 274 days, ranking 5,147 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 311 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71361's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Pineville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Pineville can differ from the 71361 normal.