Sardis, MS 38666 Frost Dates
Sardis, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.
Sardis 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 11 weeks until Sardis'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
03/15 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 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sardis against the rest of the dataset
About 244 days separate Sardis's last and first frost, putting it 8,236 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 209 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38666's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Sardis can differ from the 38666 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Sardis's frost date answer different questions.