Clarence, LA 71414 Frost Dates
71414, near Clarence, LA: the frost window
Around 03/05 is the usual last spring frost, about 189 days away. 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 Clarence in Zone 9a (20 to 25°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
Clarence'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 Clarence'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.
Clarence against the rest of the dataset
About 257 days separate Clarence's last and first frost, putting it 6,752 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 536 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71414: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Clarence's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Clarence's dates instead of trusting one.