Southaven, MS 38672 Frost Dates
Southaven, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Southaven in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Southaven's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Southaven's last frost
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/05 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Southaven against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Southaven places 10,947 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 395 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38672's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Southaven's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Southaven can differ from the 38672 normal.