Vaiden, MS 39176 Frost Dates
39176, near Vaiden, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 04/07, roughly 222 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/29, roughly 203 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 Vaiden, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Vaiden's growing season runs out in roughly 9 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Vaiden's last frost
04/07 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vaiden against the rest of the dataset
About 203 days separate Vaiden's last and first frost, putting it 16,997 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 512 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39176: local microclimates, on what one yard in Vaiden can differ from the 39176 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Vaiden's frost date answer different questions.