Monticello, MS 39654 Frost Dates
Monticello, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/12 is the usual last spring frost, about 196 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/10, roughly 242 days after the last spring frost.
Monticello 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
With roughly 11 weeks until Monticello's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
Why 03/12 isn't a guarantee
03/12 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/22 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/03 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Monticello against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 242 frost-free days, Monticello places 8,379 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 237 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39654's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Monticello's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Monticello can differ from the 39654 normal.