Oxford, MS 38677 Frost Dates
38677, near Oxford, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/03, roughly 218 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 210 days after the last spring frost.
Oxford sits in USDA Zone 7b (5 to 10°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
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.
Why 04/03 isn't a guarantee
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
At roughly 210 frost-free days, Oxford places 14,974 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 495 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38677: the frost range, on how to read the range around Oxford's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Oxford can differ from the 38677 normal.