Mathiston, MS 39752 Frost Dates
39752, near Mathiston, MS: the frost window
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 Mathiston 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
Mathiston'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.
Why 03/30 isn't a guarantee
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.
Mathiston against the rest of the dataset
About 218 days separate Mathiston's last and first frost, putting it 13,310 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within MS, it ranks 465 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39752: local microclimates, on what one yard in Mathiston can differ from the 39752 normal, and zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Mathiston's frost date answer different questions.