Oakland, MS 38961 Frost Dates
Oakland, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Oakland, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Oakland's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/08 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Oakland against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 222 frost-free days, Oakland places 12,333 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 437 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 38961's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Oakland can differ from the 38961 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Oakland's frost date answer different questions.