Pearl, MS 39193 Frost Dates
Pearl, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/14, roughly 245 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 Pearl, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 11 weeks until Pearl's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Pearl's last frost
03/14 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pearl against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Pearl places 7,977 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 175 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39193's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Pearl's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Pearl's dates instead of trusting one.