Columbus, MS 39702 Frost Dates
Columbus, MS: when does the frost end?
Typically, the last spring freeze lands around 03/13, roughly 197 days out. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/12, roughly 244 days after the last spring frost.
Columbus 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 Columbus'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
03/13 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/19 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/02 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Columbus against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 244 frost-free days, Columbus places 8,210 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 202 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39702's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8b and Columbus's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Columbus's dates instead of trusting one.