Raymond, MS 39289 Frost Dates
Raymond, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
Raymond 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.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Raymond's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Raymond's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/25 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/06 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Raymond against the rest of the dataset
About 236 days separate Raymond's last and first frost, putting it 9,449 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 316 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39289's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Raymond's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Raymond can differ from the 39289 normal.