Carrollton, MS 38923 Frost Dates
38923, near Carrollton, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Carrollton 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
Carrollton'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 Carrollton's last frost
03/17 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/26 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carrollton against the rest of the dataset
Carrollton's growing season runs about 231 days, ranking 10,260 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 369 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38923: the frost range, on how to read the range around Carrollton's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Carrollton can differ from the 38923 normal.