Ashland, MS 38603 Frost Dates
Ashland, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/29, about 213 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 224 days after the last spring frost.
Ashland sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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 10 weeks until Ashland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/29 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ashland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 224 frost-free days, Ashland places 11,941 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 407 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38603's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 7b and Ashland's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Ashland's dates instead of trusting one.