Puckett, MS 39151 Frost Dates
39151, near Puckett, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/10, about 194 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/16, roughly 252 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 Puckett, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Puckett'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/10 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Puckett against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 252 frost-free days, Puckett places 7,260 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 128 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39151: the frost range, on how to read the range around Puckett's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Puckett can differ from the 39151 normal.