Boyce, LA 71409 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Boyce, LA, ZIP 71409
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/02, about 186 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/27, about 271 frost-free days later.
Boyce 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 9a around Boyce 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.
The actual range around Boyce's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/19 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Boyce compares
At roughly 271 frost-free days, Boyce places 5,462 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 338 of 710.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Boyce's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Boyce's dates instead of trusting one.