Tupelo, MS 38801 Frost Dates
Tupelo, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Tupelo sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Tupelo's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Tupelo against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Tupelo places 9,558 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 325 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38801's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Tupelo can differ from the 38801 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Tupelo's frost date answer different questions.