Raleigh, MS 39153 Frost Dates
39153, near Raleigh, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/28, roughly 212 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/03, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Raleigh 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
Raleigh's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
Why 03/28 isn't a guarantee
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Raleigh against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 221 frost-free days, Raleigh places 12,540 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 444 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39153: local microclimates, on what one yard in Raleigh can differ from the 39153 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Raleigh's frost date answer different questions.