Hernando, MS 38632 Frost Dates
Hernando, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Hernando 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Hernando'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
03/28 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 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hernando against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 223 frost-free days, Hernando places 12,025 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 409 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38632's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Hernando's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Hernando's dates instead of trusting one.