Coldwater, MS 38618 Frost Dates
Coldwater, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/20, about 204 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 229 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Coldwater, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Coldwater's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Coldwater's last frost
03/20 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Coldwater against the rest of the dataset
About 229 days separate Coldwater's last and first frost, putting it 10,623 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 386 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38618's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Coldwater's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Coldwater can differ from the 38618 normal.