Coffeeville, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Coffeeville, 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 Coffeeville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Coffeeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Coffeeville — the short answer
Coffeeville, Mississippi: USDA zone 8a, about 241 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- Yalobusha County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 12
- Yalobusha County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~241
- Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Coffeeville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Coffeeville's 241-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Coffeeville
Each reading below is measured for Coffeeville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsCoffeeville runs about 241 days between hard freezes (read from Yalobusha County, the closest normal to Coffeeville) — a long growing season.
There is slack for succession plantings and slow-finishing crops: many vegetables can be sown twice, and the heat-lovers have time to ripen fully.
Plan a second sowing of quick crops after the first comes out, and use the fall window most gardeners let sit idle.
NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Winter hardiness
MeasuredCoffeeville sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Coffeeville is in
Coffeeville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Coffeeville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Yalobusha County.
What Grows in Coffeeville
Every plant below cleared Coffeeville's own zone 8a and its 241-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Coffeeville?
Too late for some crops, right on time for others — a growing season is a sequence, not a deadline. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 12 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Coffeeville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Coffeeville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Moore's Oil CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- George DenleyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Bypass ExpressUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Gas Buddy 2Underground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- Bell's 66 Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- K&D CULTURED MARBLE INC.Toxics Release Inventory · 0.5 mi
- Bolden Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Pit Stop Of AmericaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Chappell Sides Farm ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 161L0019 YALOBUSHANitrate · 0.7 mi
- YALOBUSHA COUNTY RUBBISH LANDFILLToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- Coffeeville FacilityUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Coffeeville'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 Coffeeville.
Total Sites
37
within ~10 miles of Coffeeville
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Coffeeville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Coffeeville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Coffeeville, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Coffeeville. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Coffeeville
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 Coffeeville average
Your land is one point inside Coffeeville
Everything above resolves to Coffeeville as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 1K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Yalobusha 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 Coffeeville Average
Coffeeville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Coffeeville
- ●One soil character for all of Coffeeville
- ●Frost dates read at Coffeeville's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 12
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Coffeeville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Coffeeville
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Coffeeville, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Coffeeville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Coffeeville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Coffeeville average
How we know this about Coffeeville
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 Yalobusha 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 Coffeeville
When does frost risk typically end in Coffeeville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Coffeeville typically lands around Mar 16, 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 Apr 6.
When is the first frost in Coffeeville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Coffeeville typically arrives around Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 29, so the watching starts about Oct 13 — about 241 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Coffeeville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Coffeeville sees about 241 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 12, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Oct 29, about 206 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Coffeeville?
The federal record around Coffeeville is light — 37 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Coffeeville?
From about Oct 13 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 12 (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 12. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Coffeeville's scale — its 8a band and its 241-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Coffeeville'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 Coffeeville’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Coffeeville's own scale — the 1,372 acres it covers and 37 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Coffeeville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 37 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Coffeeville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Coffeeville's boundary and the 1,372 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~241-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Coffeeville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Coffeeville has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Yalobusha County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Coffeeville's 1,372 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Yalobusha County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Yalobusha 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 Yalobusha County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Coffeeville's 1,372 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Coffeeville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,372 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 Coffeeville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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