Artesia, MS 39736 Frost Dates
Artesia, MS: when does the frost end?
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/08, roughly 233 days after the last spring frost.
Artesia sits in USDA Zone 8a (10 to 15°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 10 weeks until Artesia's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Artesia's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 02/28 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/13 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Artesia against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Artesia places 9,975 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 356 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39736's figures: the frost range explains how to read the range around Artesia's dates instead of trusting one, while local microclimates explains what one yard in Artesia can differ from the 39736 normal.