Cleveland, MS 38732 Frost Dates
Cleveland, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 248 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Cleveland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Cleveland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Cleveland against the rest of the dataset
About 248 days separate Cleveland's last and first frost, putting it 7,687 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 145 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38732's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Cleveland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Cleveland can differ from the 38732 normal.