Ethel, MS 39067 Frost Dates
39067, near Ethel, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/18, roughly 202 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/11, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Ethel sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Ethel's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/18 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 04/05 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ethel against the rest of the dataset
Ethel's growing season runs about 239 days, ranking 8,884 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 275 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39067: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Ethel's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Ethel's dates instead of trusting one.