Mayersville, MS 38744 Frost Dates
38744, near Mayersville, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/05, about 189 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/20, roughly 261 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 Mayersville, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Mayersville'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/05 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/22 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mayersville against the rest of the dataset
About 261 days separate Mayersville's last and first frost, putting it 6,445 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 62 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38744: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mayersville can differ from the 38744 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Mayersville's frost date answer different questions.