Utica, MS 39175 Frost Dates
Utica, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Utica 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 10 weeks until Utica's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/16 isn't a guarantee
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Utica against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Utica places 9,507 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 320 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39175's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Utica's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Utica can differ from the 39175 normal.