Moss Point, MS 39563 Frost Dates
39563, near Moss Point, MS: the frost window
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/08, roughly 192 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/19, roughly 256 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Moss Point in Zone 9a (20 to 25°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
Moss Point's growing season runs out in roughly 12 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 Moss Point's last frost
03/08 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/15 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/31 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Moss Point against the rest of the dataset
Moss Point's growing season runs about 256 days, ranking 6,802 of 40,283 US ZIP codes measured here, longest to shortest. Within MS, it ranks 89 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39563: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 9a and Moss Point's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Moss Point's dates instead of trusting one.