Fisher, LA 71449 Frost Dates
71449, near Fisher, LA: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 236 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 Fisher, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Fisher'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fisher against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Fisher places 9,524 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 684 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 71449: local microclimates, on what one yard in Fisher can differ from the 71449 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Fisher's frost date answer different questions.