Noxapater, MS 39346 Frost Dates
39346, near Noxapater, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
Noxapater 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
Noxapater'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.
Why 03/21 isn't a guarantee
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Noxapater against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Noxapater places 9,652 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 332 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39346: local microclimates, on what one yard in Noxapater can differ from the 39346 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Noxapater's frost date answer different questions.