Brooksville, MS 39739 Frost Dates
39739, near Brooksville, MS: the frost window
Around 03/21 is the usual last spring frost, about 205 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/07, roughly 231 days after the last spring frost.
Brooksville 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
Brooksville's growing season runs out in roughly 10 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
How much risk comes with planting early here
03/21 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 04/08 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Brooksville against the rest of the dataset
About 231 days separate Brooksville's last and first frost, putting it 10,232 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 368 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39739: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8b and Brooksville's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Brooksville's dates instead of trusting one.