Ellisville, MS 39459 Frost Dates
Ellisville, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/08 is the usual last spring frost, about 192 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/15, roughly 252 days after the last spring frost.
Ellisville 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 Ellisville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Ellisville's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/16 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/28 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ellisville against the rest of the dataset
About 252 days separate Ellisville's last and first frost, putting it 7,233 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 122 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39459's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ellisville can differ from the 39459 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Ellisville's frost date answer different questions.