Louise, MS 39097 Frost Dates
Louise, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/04, about 188 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 267 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 Louise, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 13 weeks until Louise's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Louise's last frost
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Louise against the rest of the dataset
Louise's growing season runs about 267 days, ranking 5,904 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 39 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39097's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Louise's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Louise's dates instead of trusting one.