Scooba, MS 39352 Frost Dates
Scooba, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/14, about 198 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 245 days after the last spring frost.
Scooba 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Scooba's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/14 isn't a guarantee
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.
Scooba against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 245 frost-free days, Scooba places 8,055 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 196 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39352's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Scooba's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Scooba can differ from the 39352 normal.