Baldwyn, MS 38880 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Baldwyn, MS, ZIP 38880
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/01, roughly 216 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/03, about 216 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Baldwyn, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Baldwyn 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 Baldwyn's last frost
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 03/15 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/16 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Baldwyn compares
At roughly 216 frost-free days, Baldwyn places 13,791 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 478 of 523.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Baldwyn's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Baldwyn can differ from the 38880 normal.