Leesville, LA 71443 Frost Dates
71443, near Leesville, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 234 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Leesville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Leesville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/20 isn't a guarantee
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leesville against the rest of the dataset
Leesville's growing season runs about 234 days, ranking 9,730 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within LA, it ranks 685 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71443: local microclimates, on what one yard in Leesville can differ from the 71443 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Leesville's frost date answer different questions.