Calhoun City, MS 38916 Frost Dates
38916, near Calhoun City, 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 11/05, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Calhoun City 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
Calhoun City'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 Calhoun City's last frost
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 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Calhoun City against the rest of the dataset
Calhoun City's growing season runs about 223 days, ranking 12,079 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 417 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38916: local microclimates, on what one yard in Calhoun City can differ from the 38916 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Calhoun City's frost date answer different questions.