Crowder, MS 38622 Frost Dates
38622, near Crowder, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Crowder 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
Crowder's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Crowder's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 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.
Crowder against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Crowder places 9,960 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 354 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38622: local microclimates, on what one yard in Crowder can differ from the 38622 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Crowder's frost date answer different questions.