Schlater, MS 38945 Frost Dates
Schlater, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/07 is the usual last spring frost, about 191 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/17, roughly 254 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 Schlater, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Schlater's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Schlater's last frost
03/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/27 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Schlater against the rest of the dataset
About 254 days separate Schlater's last and first frost, putting it 7,059 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 105 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38945's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Schlater can differ from the 38945 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Schlater's frost date answer different questions.