Toccopola, MS 38864 Frost Dates
38864, near Toccopola, 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.
Toccopola 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
Toccopola'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 Toccopola'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.
Toccopola against the rest of the dataset
Toccopola's growing season runs about 227 days, ranking 11,061 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 405 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38864: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Toccopola's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Toccopola's dates instead of trusting one.