Mize, MS 39116 Frost Dates
Mize, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/17, roughly 201 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 238 days after the last spring frost.
Mize 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Mize's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Mize's last frost
03/17 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 04/04 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Mize against the rest of the dataset
Mize's growing season runs about 238 days, ranking 9,030 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 284 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39116's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Mize can differ from the 39116 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Mize's frost date answer different questions.