Madison, MS 39110 Frost Dates
39110, near Madison, MS: the frost window
Around 03/14 is the usual last spring frost, about 198 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 245 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 Madison, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Madison's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Madison's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Madison against the rest of the dataset
Madison's growing season runs about 245 days, ranking 7,979 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 177 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39110: the frost range, on how to read the range around Madison's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Madison can differ from the 39110 normal.