Pontotoc, MS 38863 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pontotoc, MS, ZIP 38863
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 227 frost-free days later.
Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc 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 Pontotoc's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/12 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pontotoc compares
At roughly 227 frost-free days, Pontotoc places 11,006 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 398 of 523.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Pontotoc's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Pontotoc can differ from the 38863 normal.