Merryville, LA 75928 Frost Dates
75928, near Merryville, LA: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/01, roughly 185 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/25, roughly 269 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Merryville in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Merryville'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 Merryville's last frost
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/02 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Merryville against the rest of the dataset
About 269 days separate Merryville's last and first frost, putting it 5,686 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within LA, it ranks 371 of 710.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 75928: the frost range, on how to read the range around Merryville's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Merryville can differ from the 75928 normal.