Pickens, MS 39045 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pickens, MS, ZIP 39045
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 239 frost-free days later.
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 Pickens, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Pickens has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pickens's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pickens compares
Pickens's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,860 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 270 of 523.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Pickens can differ from the 39045 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pickens's frost date answer different questions.