Oxford, MS 38655 Frost Dates
38655, near Oxford, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/03, about 218 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 210 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 Oxford, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Oxford's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Oxford's last frost
04/03 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/13 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/21 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oxford against the rest of the dataset
About 210 days separate Oxford's last and first frost, putting it 14,972 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 493 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38655: local microclimates, on what one yard in Oxford can differ from the 38655 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Oxford's frost date answer different questions.