Belmont, MS 38838 Frost Dates
Belmont, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/28, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Belmont in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Belmont's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Belmont's last frost
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/23 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Belmont against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 203 frost-free days, Belmont places 16,945 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 510 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38838's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Belmont's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Belmont can differ from the 38838 normal.