North Carrollton, MS 38947 Frost Dates
38947, near North Carrollton, MS: the frost window
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.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts North Carrollton 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
North Carrollton'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 North Carrollton's last frost
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.
North Carrollton against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate North Carrollton's last and first frost, putting it 10,266 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 373 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 38947: local microclimates, on what one yard in North Carrollton can differ from the 38947 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and North Carrollton's frost date answer different questions.