Slate Springs, MS 38929 Frost Dates
38929, near Slate Springs, 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 11/05, roughly 223 days after the last spring frost.
Slate Springs 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
Slate Springs'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 Slate Springs'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.
Slate Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 223 days separate Slate Springs's last and first frost, putting it 12,162 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 423 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38929: the frost range, on how to read the range around Slate Springs's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Slate Springs can differ from the 38929 normal.