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Pleasant Hill, LA 71450 Frost Dates

Frost dates for Pleasant Hill, LA, ZIP 71450

Zone 8b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/20, roughly 204 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 236 frost-free days later.

The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pleasant Hill in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.

What to do before the first frost

Zone 8b around Pleasant Hill has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.

The actual range around Pleasant Hill's last frost

03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/26 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/09 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Pleasant Hill compares

At roughly 236 frost-free days, Pleasant Hill places 9,506 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within LA, it ranks 680 of 710.

Learn more

zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pleasant Hill's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pleasant Hill's dates instead of trusting one.