Crystal Springs, MS 39059 Frost Dates
Crystal Springs, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/11, roughly 195 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 250 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 Crystal Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Crystal Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Crystal Springs's last frost
03/11 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/21 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/30 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Crystal Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 250 days separate Crystal Springs's last and first frost, putting it 7,528 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 136 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39059's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Crystal Springs can differ from the 39059 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Crystal Springs's frost date answer different questions.