Mantachie, MS 38857 Frost Dates
Mantachie, MS: when does the frost end?
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 Mantachie, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 9 weeks until Mantachie's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mantachie's last frost
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.
Mantachie against the rest of the dataset
About 212 days separate Mantachie's last and first frost, putting it 14,635 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 489 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38857's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Mantachie's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Mantachie's dates instead of trusting one.