Maben, MS 39750 Frost Dates
Maben, MS: when does the frost end?
Around 03/30 is the usual last spring frost, about 214 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/04, roughly 218 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Maben in Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum); frost dates are NOAA's 1991-2020 station normal, not this year's forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 10 weeks until Maben's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
The actual range around Maben's last frost
03/30 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/12 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/16 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Maben against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 218 frost-free days, Maben places 13,313 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 466 of 523.
Learn more
Before leaning on 39750's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Maben's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Maben's dates instead of trusting one.