New Houlka, MS 38850 Frost Dates
38850, near New Houlka, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 227 days after the last spring frost.
New Houlka 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
New Houlka's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around New Houlka's last frost
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.
New Houlka against the rest of the dataset
About 227 days separate New Houlka's last and first frost, putting it 11,051 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 404 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38850: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and New Houlka's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around New Houlka's dates instead of trusting one.