Taylorsville, MS 39168 Frost Dates
Taylorsville, 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.
Taylorsville 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 Taylorsville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
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.
Taylorsville against the rest of the dataset
About 238 days separate Taylorsville's last and first frost, putting it 9,002 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 282 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39168's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Taylorsville's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Taylorsville can differ from the 39168 normal.