Sturgis, MS 39769 Frost Dates
39769, near Sturgis, MS: the frost window
The last spring frost here typically falls around 03/21, about 205 days from today. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 11/13, roughly 235 days after the last spring frost.
The USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map puts Sturgis 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
Sturgis's growing season runs out in roughly 11 weeks — a cold frame or greenhouse kit is the usual way to keep cool-weather crops going past the first frost.
The actual range around Sturgis's last frost
03/21 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/01 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/09 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Sturgis against the rest of the dataset
At roughly 235 frost-free days, Sturgis places 9,660 of 40,283 ZIP codes in this dataset. Within MS, it ranks 333 of 523.
Learn more
Two guides worth reading on 39769: zone vs. frost date, on why Zone 8a and Sturgis's frost date answer different questions, and the frost range, on how to read the range around Sturgis's dates instead of trusting one.