Walnut, MS 38683 Frost Dates
38683, near Walnut, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/02, about 217 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 213 days after the last spring frost.
Walnut 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
Walnut'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.
The actual range around Walnut's last frost
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Walnut against the rest of the dataset
About 213 days separate Walnut's last and first frost, putting it 14,529 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 483 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38683: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 7b and Walnut's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Walnut's dates instead of trusting one.