Meridian, MS 39301 Frost Dates
39301, near Meridian, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/16, roughly 200 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 239 days after the last spring frost.
Meridian 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
Meridian's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Meridian's last frost
03/16 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/24 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Meridian against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 239 frost-free days, Meridian places 8,781 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 257 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39301: local microclimates, on what one yard in Meridian can differ from the 39301 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Meridian's frost date answer different questions.