Raymond, MS 39296 Frost Dates
Raymond, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/16 is the usual last spring frost, about 200 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/06, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Raymond 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
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
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Raymond places 9,450 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 317 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39296'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 39296 normal.