Carthage, MS 39051 Frost Dates
Carthage, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/19 is the usual last spring frost, about 203 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 233 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 Carthage, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Carthage's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/19 isn't a guarantee
03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Carthage against the rest of the dataset
About 233 days separate Carthage's last and first frost, putting it 9,896 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 340 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39051's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Carthage's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Carthage's dates instead of trusting one.