Southaven, MS 38671 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Southaven, MS?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/16, about 200 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 244 frost-free days later.
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 Southaven, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Southaven before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Southaven's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/27 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/04 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Southaven compares
At roughly 244 frost-free days, Southaven places 8,197 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 198 of 523.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Southaven's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Southaven's dates instead of trusting one.