Houston, MS 38875 Frost Dates
Houston, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/01, roughly 220 days after the last spring frost.
Houston 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 9 weeks until Houston's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Houston against the rest of the dataset
About 220 days separate Houston's last and first frost, putting it 12,810 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 452 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38875's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Houston's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Houston can differ from the 38875 normal.