Leland, MS 38756 Frost Dates
Leland, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/11, about 195 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 250 days after the last spring frost.
Leland sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 11 weeks until Leland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Leland's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Leland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 250 frost-free days, Leland places 7,531 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 137 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38756's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Leland's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Leland can differ from the 38756 normal.