Coahoma, MS 38617 Frost Dates
38617, near Coahoma, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 246 days after the last spring frost.
Coahoma sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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
Coahoma's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Coahoma's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coahoma against the rest of the dataset
About 246 days separate Coahoma's last and first frost, putting it 7,948 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 171 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38617: local microclimates, on what one yard in Coahoma can differ from the 38617 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Coahoma's frost date answer different questions.