Walls, MS 38680 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Walls, MS?
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/16, about 244 frost-free days later.
Walls 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Walls before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Walls'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 Walls compares
Walls's growing season runs about 244 days, ranking 8,239 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 210 of 523.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date covers why Zone 8a and Walls's frost date answer different questions. the frost range covers how to read the range around Walls's dates instead of trusting one.