Hickory, MS 39356 Frost Dates
39356, near Hickory, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/24, roughly 208 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/05, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Hickory 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
Hickory's growing season runs out in roughly 10 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 Hickory's last frost
03/24 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 04/10 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Hickory against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 228 frost-free days, Hickory places 10,908 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 393 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39356: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Hickory's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Hickory's dates instead of trusting one.