Yazoo City, MS 39194 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Yazoo City, MS, ZIP 39194
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/04, roughly 188 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/24, about 267 frost-free days later.
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 Yazoo City, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8b around Yazoo City has about 13 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 Yazoo City's last frost
03/04 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/07 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 03/25 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Yazoo City compares
At roughly 267 frost-free days, Yazoo City places 5,846 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 38 of 523.
Learn more
local microclimates explains what one yard in Yazoo City can differ from the 39194 normal, and zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Yazoo City's frost date answer different questions.