Bogue Chitto, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Bogue Chitto, 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 Bogue Chitto lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Bogue Chitto — the short answer
Bogue Chitto, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 279 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 20
- Lincoln County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Lincoln County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~279
- Lincoln County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Lincoln County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Bogue Chitto's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bogue Chitto's 279-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bogue Chitto
Each reading below is measured for Bogue Chitto itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsBogue Chitto runs about 279 days between hard freezes (read from Lincoln County, the closest normal to Bogue Chitto) — 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
MeasuredBogue Chitto 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 Bogue Chitto is in
Bogue Chitto sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bogue Chitto's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lincoln County.
What Grows in Bogue Chitto
Every plant below cleared Bogue Chitto's own zone 8b and its 279-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bogue Chitto?
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 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Bogue Chitto
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bogue Chitto. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Beaman's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Reeves GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Sasser PropertyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- W H SasserUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 085P0001 LINCOLNNitrate · 0.5 mi
- Momma's PlaceUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Wallace TexacoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Bogue Chitto Truck StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- The Corner StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Filet HouseUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.3 mi
- West Mallalieu FieldUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- Moaks GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bogue Chitto'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 Bogue Chitto.
Total Sites
85
within ~10 miles of Bogue Chitto
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bogue Chitto
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bogue Chitto
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bogue Chitto, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 54 sites within ~10 miles of Bogue Chitto. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Bogue Chitto
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bogue Chitto average
Your land is one point inside Bogue Chitto
Everything above resolves to Bogue Chitto as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Lincoln 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 Bogue Chitto Average
Bogue Chitto Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Bogue Chitto
- ●One soil character for all of Bogue Chitto
- ●Frost dates read at Bogue Chitto's scale: Feb 20 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bogue Chitto's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bogue Chitto
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bogue Chitto, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bogue Chitto averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bogue Chitto — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bogue Chitto average
How we know this about Bogue Chitto
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 Lincoln 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 Bogue Chitto
When does frost risk typically end in Bogue Chitto?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bogue Chitto typically lands around Feb 20, 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 13.
When is the first frost in Bogue Chitto?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bogue Chitto typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 279 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bogue Chitto?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bogue Chitto sees about 279 frost-free days — roughly Feb 20 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 13 to Nov 12, about 244 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bogue Chitto?
The federal record around Bogue Chitto shows 85 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (54), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Bogue Chitto?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bogue Chitto's scale — its 8b band and its 279-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bogue Chitto'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 Bogue Chitto’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Bogue Chitto's own scale — the 1,445 acres it covers and 85 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bogue Chitto's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 85 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bogue Chitto, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bogue Chitto's boundary and the 1,445 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~279-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bogue Chitto's own centroid, the Mississippi Valley Loess PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Bogue Chitto has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Lincoln County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bogue Chitto's 1,445 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lincoln County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lincoln 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 Lincoln County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bogue Chitto's 1,445 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bogue Chitto you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,445 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Bogue Chitto-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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