Goodman, MS 39079 Frost Dates
Goodman, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 239 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 Goodman, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Goodman's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Goodman's last frost
03/14 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.
Goodman against the rest of the dataset
About 239 days separate Goodman's last and first frost, putting it 8,851 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 268 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39079's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Goodman's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Goodman can differ from the 39079 normal.