Glen, MS 38846 Frost Dates
38846, near Glen, MS: the frost window
Around 04/02 is the usual last spring frost, about 217 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 213 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 Glen, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Glen's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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
04/02 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/17 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Glen against the rest of the dataset
Glen's growing season runs about 213 days, ranking 14,538 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 484 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38846: the frost range, on how to read the range around Glen's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Glen can differ from the 38846 normal.