Pachuta, MS 39348 Frost Dates
39348, near Pachuta, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/18, about 202 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 236 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Pachuta 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
Pachuta'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Pachuta against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 236 frost-free days, Pachuta places 9,522 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 324 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39348: the frost range, on how to read the range around Pachuta's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in Pachuta can differ from the 39348 normal.