Booneville, MS 38829 Frost Dates
Booneville, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 04/01, about 216 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 216 days after the last spring frost.
Booneville 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 10 weeks until Booneville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Booneville's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Booneville against the rest of the dataset
About 216 days separate Booneville's last and first frost, putting it 13,758 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 476 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38829's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Booneville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Booneville can differ from the 38829 normal.