Doddsville, MS 38736 Frost Dates
38736, near Doddsville, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/08, about 192 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 255 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 Doddsville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Doddsville's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Doddsville's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Doddsville against the rest of the dataset
About 255 days separate Doddsville's last and first frost, putting it 6,980 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 100 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38736: local microclimates, on what one yard in Doddsville can differ from the 38736 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Doddsville's frost date answer different questions.