Florien, LA 71429 Frost Dates
71429, near Florien, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/03, about 187 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 267 days after the last spring frost.
Florien 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
Florien's growing season runs out in roughly 13 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 Florien's last frost
03/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Florien against the rest of the dataset
About 267 days separate Florien's last and first frost, putting it 5,890 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 458 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71429: the frost range, on how to read the range around Florien's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Florien can differ from the 71429 normal.