Edwards, MS 39066 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Edwards, MS, ZIP 39066
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/06, about 236 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 Edwards, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Edwards 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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/16 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 Edwards compares
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Edwards places 9,460 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 318 of 523.
Learn more
the frost range explains how to read the range around Edwards's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates explains what one yard in Edwards can differ from the 39066 normal.