Greenwood, MS 38930 Frost Dates
Greenwood, MS: when does the frost end?
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.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Greenwood, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Greenwood's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/17 isn't a guarantee
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.
Greenwood against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Greenwood's last and first frost, putting it 10,158 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 365 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38930's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Greenwood's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Greenwood can differ from the 38930 normal.