Bude, MS 39668 Frost Dates
When can you plant in Bude, MS?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/15, roughly 199 days out. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/12, about 243 frost-free days later.
Bude 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.
What to do before the first frost
About 11 weeks of growing season left in Bude before the first fall frost — a cold frame or row cover can stretch harvest weeks past that date.
The actual range around Bude's last frost
03/15 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/20 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/07 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Bude compares
At roughly 243 frost-free days, Bude places 8,323 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 224 of 523.
Learn more
the frost range covers how to read the range around Bude's dates instead of trusting one. local microclimates covers what one yard in Bude can differ from the 39668 normal.