Schlater, MS 38952 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.
Schlater sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
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 7,060 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 106 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38952's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Schlater's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Schlater's dates instead of trusting one.