Pope, MS 38927 Frost Dates
38927, near Pope, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/28, about 212 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pope 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
Pope's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 03/06 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.
Pope against the rest of the dataset
About 218 days separate Pope's last and first frost, putting it 13,342 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 472 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38927: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Pope's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Pope's dates instead of trusting one.