Ecru, MS 38841 Frost Dates
Ecru, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Ecru, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Ecru'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
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ecru against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Ecru places 11,038 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 401 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38841's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ecru can differ from the 38841 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Ecru's frost date answer different questions.