Bruce, MS 38913 Frost Dates
38913, near Bruce, MS: the frost window
Around 04/01 is the usual last spring frost, about 216 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 219 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bruce in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Bruce'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.
Why 04/01 isn't a guarantee
04/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/09 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/18 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bruce against the rest of the dataset
About 219 days separate Bruce's last and first frost, putting it 13,050 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 457 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38913: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Bruce's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Bruce's dates instead of trusting one.