Long Beach, MS 39560 Frost Dates
Long Beach, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 02/18, about 174 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 12/14, roughly 300 days after the last spring frost.
Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 Long Beach, not a forecast for this year.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 15 weeks until Long Beach's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Long Beach's last frost
02/18 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 01/17 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/14 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Long Beach against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 300 frost-free days, Long Beach places 4,090 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 8 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39560's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Long Beach's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Long Beach can differ from the 39560 normal.