Beauregard, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Beauregard, no two yards are alike.
A low spot, a south-facing slope, or a stand of trees moves the frost date and sun across a single Beauregard lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Beauregard — the short answer
Beauregard, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 281 days between hard freezes, across 586 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 17
- Copiah County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 25
- Copiah County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~281
- Copiah County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 586 acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Copiah County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Beauregard's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Beauregard's 281-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Beauregard
Each reading below is measured for Beauregard itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBeauregard runs about 281 days between hard freezes (read from Copiah County, the closest normal to Beauregard) — close to year-round growing.
Frost is rarely the limit here; winter plantings are as real as summer ones, and the harder question is which crops shrug off the summer heat.
Grow cool-season crops through the mild winter, and choose heat-tolerant varieties for the summer beds.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredBeauregard sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
The zone sets which perennials, shrubs, and fruit trees live through an average winter here — a plant rated for a colder zone is a safe bet, one rated warmer needs winter protection or gets treated as an annual.
Match perennials and fruit to the zone before you buy, so nothing you plant is a gamble against the cold.
USDA PHZM 2023
The kind of country Beauregard is in
Beauregard sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Beauregard's own centroid rather than borrowed from Copiah County.
What Grows in Beauregard
Every plant below cleared Beauregard's own zone 8b and its 281-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Beauregard?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 25 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. In a climate this gentle, “too late” hardly applies — the question becomes which crops prefer the cooler months ahead.
What's on the federal record near Beauregard
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Beauregard. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- D & D GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Smith's One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- BFEL INDEMNITOR INC, POTTER PRODUCTION FACILITYSuperfund · 2200 ft
- Copiah County South BarnUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- East End Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Real Value FoodsUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Shop & WashUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Furr's Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Ashleys 51 StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.2 mi
- Wesson Attendance CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- Abandoned Texaco Station/ Busy B Hair SalonUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Copiah Lincoln Community CollegeUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Beauregard's center, not your beds. Run your own address for what's upwind of you specifically.
Environmental Intelligence
The counts behind that headline — every source type on the record near Beauregard.
Total Sites
177
within ~10 miles of Beauregard
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
3 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Beauregard
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Beauregard
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Beauregard, Superfund runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Beauregard. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Beauregard
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Beauregard
Everything above resolves to Beauregard as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 586 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Copiah County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. Your parcel is one point inside that footprint. Slope, tree cover, a low spot that pools cold air, and what is in the soil are all resolved at the address, and none of them are visible at town scale. That is the honest boundary of this page, and the reason the next step is a reading of your own ground rather than a better local average.
Your Lot vs the Beauregard Average
Beauregard Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Beauregard
- ●One soil character for all of Beauregard
- ●Frost dates read at Beauregard's scale: Feb 17 to Nov 25
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Beauregard's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Beauregard
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Beauregard, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Beauregard averages can't show:
We read public map data around Beauregard — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Beauregard average
How we know this about Beauregard
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Copiah County’s record, because none resolves here; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Soil is not read at town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-resolution survey in our data, which is why you will find no soil grid here rather than a statewide one wearing a local label. The resolution ledger below names every figure this page inherited.
Common questions about Beauregard
When does frost risk typically end in Beauregard?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Beauregard typically lands around Feb 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — earlier than the light-frost dates most charts quote. That marks the hard freeze, not the last light frost — lighter frosts keep biting past it, which is why tender transplants here wait until about Mar 10.
When is the first frost in Beauregard?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Beauregard typically arrives around Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 11, so the watching starts about Oct 26 — about 281 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Beauregard?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Beauregard sees about 281 frost-free days — roughly Feb 17 through Nov 25, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 10 to Nov 11, about 246 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Beauregard?
The federal record around Beauregard is a meaningful one — 177 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (101), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — so a soil test before new food beds is a sensible precaution here, not a reason to hold back from growing. Remember that proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what sits where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Beauregard?
From about Oct 26 the job here turns from planting to protecting — the last start even a 30-day crop can finish. As the season closes around the first 28°F hard freeze near Nov 25 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals), three moves buy time: row cover or an old sheet over tender plants on still, clear nights; water the soil the afternoon before a freeze, so it holds warmth overnight; and harvest tomatoes, peppers and basil before Nov 25. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Beauregard's scale — its 8b band and its 281-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Beauregard's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
What this page reads at Beauregard’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Beauregard's own scale — the 586 acres it covers and 177 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Beauregard's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 177 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Beauregard, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Beauregard's boundary and the 586 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~281-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Beauregard's own centroid, the Mississippi Valley Loess PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Beauregard has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Copiah County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Beauregard's 586 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Copiah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Copiah County
- The growing challenges every Mississippi grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Mississippi
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Copiah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Beauregard's 586 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Beauregard you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 586 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out, measured from the town centrehow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — measured at your address, and averaged away by any Beauregard-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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