Sebastopol, MS 39359 Frost Dates
Sebastopol, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/28 is the usual last spring frost, about 212 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Sebastopol 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 9 weeks until Sebastopol's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/07 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/20 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sebastopol against the rest of the dataset
Sebastopol's growing season runs about 221 days, ranking 12,594 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 450 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39359's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Sebastopol's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Sebastopol can differ from the 39359 normal.