Golden, MS 38847 Frost Dates
38847, near Golden, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/31, roughly 212 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 Golden, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Golden'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
04/01 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 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Golden against the rest of the dataset
Golden's growing season runs about 212 days, ranking 14,690 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 492 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38847: the frost range, on how to read the range around Golden's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Golden can differ from the 38847 normal.