Vicksburg, MS 39182 Frost Dates
Vicksburg, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 02/26 is the usual last spring frost, about 182 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/22, roughly 269 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°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 Vicksburg, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 12 weeks until Vicksburg's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 02/26 isn't a guarantee
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 5,657 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 24 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39182's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Vicksburg can differ from the 39182 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Vicksburg's frost date answer different questions.