Clarks, LA 71415 Frost Dates
71415, near Clarks, 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 11/22, roughly 263 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Clarks, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Clarks'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Clarks against the rest of the dataset
About 263 days separate Clarks's last and first frost, putting it 6,132 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 487 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71415: local microclimates, on what one yard in Clarks can differ from the 71415 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Clarks's frost date answer different questions.