Bay Springs, MS 39460 Frost Dates
39460, near Bay Springs, MS: the frost window
Around 03/25 is the usual last spring frost, about 209 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/02, roughly 222 days after the last spring frost.
Bay Springs 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
Bay Springs's growing season runs out in roughly 9 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 Bay Springs's last frost
03/25 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/04 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/12 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bay Springs against the rest of the dataset
About 222 days separate Bay Springs's last and first frost, putting it 12,280 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 433 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39460: local microclimates, on what one yard in Bay Springs can differ from the 39460 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Bay Springs's frost date answer different questions.