Bay Springs, MS 39422 Frost Dates
Bay Springs, 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 11/03, roughly 221 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 8b (15 to 20°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Bay Springs, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Bay Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Bay Springs's last frost
03/28 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/15 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bay Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 221 days separate Bay Springs's last and first frost, putting it 12,537 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 443 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39422's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Bay Springs can differ from the 39422 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Bay Springs's frost date answer different questions.