Maben, MS 39755 Frost Dates
Frost dates for Maben, MS, ZIP 39755
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/23, about 207 days from today. The first fall frost typically arrives around 11/08, about 233 frost-free days later.
Zone 8a (10 to 15°F average annual minimum) comes from the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map; the frost dates above are the 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting NOAA station for Maben, not a forecast for this year.
What to do before the first frost
Zone 8a around Maben has about 10 weeks left before the first fall frost — that's the usual window to get a cold frame up if you want to keep harvesting past it.
The actual range around Maben's last frost
03/23 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Plant by 02/28 and you're betting against frost in roughly 9 years out of 10. 04/13 is the safer bet, historically only a 1-in-10 chance of frost that late.
How Maben compares
At roughly 233 frost-free days, Maben places 9,950 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 353 of 523.
Learn more
zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 8a and Maben's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range explains how to read the range around Maben's dates instead of trusting one.