Ocean Springs, MS 39565 Frost Dates
Ocean Springs, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/01, about 185 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/24, roughly 269 days after the last spring frost.
Ocean Springs sits in USDA Zone 9a (20 to 25°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 13 weeks until Ocean Springs's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/01 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/06 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 03/24 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Ocean Springs against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 269 frost-free days, Ocean Springs places 5,665 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 32 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39565's figures: local microclimates explains what one yard in Ocean Springs can differ from the 39565 normal, while zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 9a and Ocean Springs's frost date answer different questions.