State Line, MS 39362 Frost Dates
39362, near State Line, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/26, roughly 210 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 228 days after the last spring frost.
State Line 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
State Line'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.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/26 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/03 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/11 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
State Line against the rest of the dataset
State Line's growing season runs about 228 days, ranking 10,901 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 391 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39362: the frost range, on how to read the range around State Line's dates instead of trusting one, and local microclimates, on what one yard in State Line can differ from the 39362 normal.