Campti, LA 71411 Frost Dates
71411, near Campti, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 257 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Campti in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Campti's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Campti's last frost
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/14 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/23 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Campti against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 257 frost-free days, Campti places 6,731 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 527 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71411: the frost range, on how to read the range around Campti's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Campti can differ from the 71411 normal.