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Sebastopol, MS 39109 Frost Dates

When can you plant in Sebastopol, MS?

Zone 8b

Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/19, roughly 203 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/07, about 233 frost-free days later.

Sebastopol 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.

What to do before the first frost

About 10 weeks of growing season left in Sebastopol before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.

The actual range around Sebastopol's last frost

03/19 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.

How Sebastopol compares

About 233 days separate Sebastopol's last and first frost, putting it 9,981 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 358 of 523.

Learn more

the frost range covers how to read the range around Sebastopol's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Sebastopol can differ from the 39109 normal.