Pickens, MS 39179 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Pickens, MS, ZIP 39179
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 239 frost-free days later.
Pickens 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.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Pickens has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Pickens's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/25 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/06 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Pickens compares
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Pickens places 8,862 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 272 of 523.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pickens's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Pickens's dates instead of trusting one.