Lena, MS 39094 Frost Dates
39094, near Lena, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Lena sits in USDA Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
Lena's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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
03/19 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 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Lena against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Lena places 9,996 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 361 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39094: the frost range, on how to read the range around Lena's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Lena can differ from the 39094 normal.