Nettleton, MS 38858 Frost Dates
Nettleton, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Nettleton 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
With roughly 10 weeks until Nettleton's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Nettleton's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Nettleton against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Nettleton's last and first frost, putting it 9,917 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 344 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38858's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Nettleton can differ from the 38858 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Nettleton's frost date answer different questions.