Leland, MS 38776 Frost Dates
38776, near Leland, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. 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
Leland'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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
About 250 days separate Leland's last and first frost, putting it 7,532 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 138 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38776: local microclimates, on what one yard in Leland can differ from the 38776 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Leland's frost date answer different questions.