Colfax, LA 71447 Frost Dates
Colfax, LA: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/02, roughly 186 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/27, roughly 271 days after the last spring frost.
Colfax 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
With roughly 13 weeks until Colfax's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Colfax's last frost
03/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/19 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Colfax against the rest of the dataset
About 271 days separate Colfax's last and first frost, putting it 5,455 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 337 of 710.
Learn more
Before leaning on 71447's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Colfax's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Colfax's dates instead of trusting one.