Pace, MS 38764 Frost Dates
38764, near Pace, MS: the frost window
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.
Pace 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
Pace's growing season runs out in roughly 11 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 Pace's last frost
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.
Pace against the rest of the dataset
Pace's growing season runs about 248 days, ranking 7,740 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 152 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38764: local microclimates, on what one yard in Pace can differ from the 38764 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Pace's frost date answer different questions.