Bude, MS 39647 Frost Dates
Bude, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/15 is the usual last spring frost, about 199 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 243 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Bude in Zone 8b (15 to 20°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
With roughly 11 weeks until Bude'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
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/20 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/07 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Bude against the rest of the dataset
About 243 days separate Bude's last and first frost, putting it 8,322 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 223 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39647's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Bude's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Bude can differ from the 39647 normal.