Duck Hill, MS 38926 Frost Dates
38926, near Duck Hill, MS: the frost window
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Duck Hill 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
Duck Hill'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.
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 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Duck Hill against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Duck Hill's last and first frost, putting it 12,283 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 434 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38926: local microclimates, on what one yard in Duck Hill can differ from the 38926 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Duck Hill's frost date answer different questions.