Okolona, MS 38860 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Okolona, MS, ZIP 38860
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/21, roughly 205 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/09, about 233 frost-free days later.
Okolona 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Okolona has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Okolona's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/01 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Okolona compares
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Okolona places 9,909 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 343 of 523.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Okolona's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Okolona's dates instead of trusting one.