Vicksburg, MS 39180 Frost Dates
39180, near Vicksburg, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/26, about 182 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 269 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Vicksburg in Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Vicksburg's growing season runs out in roughly 12 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
02/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/31 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Vicksburg against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 269 frost-free days, Vicksburg places 5,655 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 22 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39180: the frost range, on how to read the range around Vicksburg's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Vicksburg can differ from the 39180 normal.