Fayette, MS 39069 Frost Dates
Fayette, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/09, roughly 237 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Fayette in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Fayette's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Fayette's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Fayette against the rest of the dataset
About 237 days separate Fayette's last and first frost, putting it 9,129 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 299 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39069's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Fayette's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Fayette's dates instead of trusting one.