De Kalb, MS 39328 Frost Dates
De Kalb, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/14, roughly 198 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts De Kalb 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 11 weeks until De Kalb's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around De Kalb'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 04/01 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
De Kalb against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, De Kalb places 8,048 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 195 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39328's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around De Kalb's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in De Kalb can differ from the 39328 normal.