Noxubee County, in Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
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.
Noxubee County lies within the Black Belt — a regional growing area with its own character.
Grounded in USDA PHZM 2023 · Growable Ground suitability scoring · NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
Noxubee County holds more than one microclimate.
Soils and elevations shift across Noxubee County, so your frost dates and drainage aren't the county average. 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 Noxubee County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Noxubee County — the short answer
Noxubee County, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 269 days between hard freezes, across 445K acres.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- Days between freezes
- ~269
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F
- County area
- 445K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are county 28°F normals: light frosts run a few weeks past them, and tender transplants usually wait 2–3 weeks after the last hard freeze.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Noxubee County's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Noxubee County's 269-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Heat and winter chill in Noxubee County
Across a year, Noxubee County accumulates about 5,321 growing degree days above 50°F, about 77 fewer than the middle Mississippi county — ahead of 34 of Mississippi’s 82 counties. Degree days are the heat a crop actually gets to work with — more of them is more room to ripen a long-season crop before the freeze closes the window.
Winter banks about 1,321 hours below 45°F, 129 more than the Mississippi middle of 1,192. Chill is what tells a fruit tree its dormancy is over, and it is set by climate rather than by anything you can build.
Grounded in PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University — 1991–2020 monthly normals
Soil in Noxubee County
Across Noxubee County, the ground is predominantly Vertisols, where Vaiden, Leeper, and Falkner are the most extensive named soil series. The soil is generally somewhat poorly drained with a silty clay surface. Topsoil pH runs about 5.0–6.7, moderately acidic. Rainfall drains through hydrologic group D soils.
Soil order
Vertisols
Drainage
Somewhat poorly drained
Prime farmland
48%
Hydric soils
2%
Soil still varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
How the ground varies across Noxubee County
The USDA soil survey maps 64% of Noxubee County as somewhat poorly drained — but another 35% drains differently: 18% moderately well drained, 16% well drained.
Vaiden is the most extensive named soil at 12% of mapped acres, then Leeper (11%) and Falkner (9%).
Which of them your own lot sits on is a parcel question, not a county one. Check your address for the survey at your boundary.
What this means for growing in Noxubee County
Each reading below is measured for Noxubee County itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Drainage
MeasuredThe dominant soils across Noxubee County are somewhat poorly drained, in hydrologic group D — ground that sheds water slowly.
Beds can stay saturated for days after heavy rain, and the roots of most vegetables, berries, and fruit trees suffocate or rot in soil that never drains.
Raised beds or mounded rows lift roots above the wet zone; choose water-tolerant crops for the lowest spots.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Surface pH
MeasuredTopsoil across Noxubee County runs about pH 5.0–6.7, on the acidic side.
Blueberries, potatoes, and rhododendrons thrive in it, but most vegetables start locking out nutrients below about pH 6.0 and grow pale and stunted no matter how much you feed them.
A measured lime application raises pH for the crops that need it — but test first, because the right rate depends on your own soil, not the county average.
USDA NRCS SSURGO
Season length
MeasuredNoxubee County runs about 269 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredNoxubee County 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 Noxubee County is in
Noxubee County sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. One consistent ecological setting across the whole county.
What Grows in Noxubee County
We scored all 1,086 plants against Noxubee County's own USDA zone 8b and its own 269-day season between hard freezes, using the same matching engine that runs a full parcel report. These cleared both. Sun, soil pH and drainage vary lot by lot — those are the parcel questions below. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile.
Is it too late to plant in Noxubee County?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 30; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — 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.
Documented around Noxubee County
- monarch butterfly4 documented records
Sighting records, so they follow observers as much as insects.
What gets applied to farmland in Noxubee County
USGS estimates 293,624 lb of Glyphosate on Noxubee County farmland in 2019, its largest by weight, ahead of Atrazine (131,026 lb) and 2,4-d (46,141 lb).
Farmland across the whole county, not any one lot. Check your address for the site-by-site record.
Safe to Grow Here?
What the federal record shows across Noxubee County — and how to grow with it.
We checked the federal record across Noxubee County — 152 documented sites across 5 of the 9 source types we track.
The most significant on record: 14 Toxics Release Inventory facilities. Active industrial facilities reporting chemical releases to air, water, and land.
The federal record across Noxubee County is a modest one — a typical footprint for a growing area. Nothing here calls for alarm; it's worth knowing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and each one on the map carries its type and location. If one turns out to be a near neighbor, a one-time soil test settles the question.
Sources: EPA, USGS — 1.8M documented sites tracked nationwide across 9 federal source types.
What's on the federal record near Noxubee County
Closest first, across Noxubee County. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Street & Sanitation DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- Macon ShellUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- The Battery ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Dinsmore Chev Olds IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Corner Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Scotts Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- HightowersUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- ExpresswayUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Southland Motor CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Bst Macon 74134Underground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Patterson's Corner MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- 4 County Electric Power AssociationUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Noxubee County'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 Noxubee County.
Total Sites
152
across Noxubee County
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
14 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
across Noxubee County
Severity Distribution
across Noxubee County
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Noxubee County, two things run higher than the national average across Noxubee County — Nitrate (62 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites). 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.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Noxubee County
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 Noxubee County average
Your land is one point inside Noxubee County
Everything above resolves to Noxubee County as a whole — one PHZM band and one county frost record, read across 445K acres. 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 county 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 county average.
Your Lot vs the Noxubee County Average
Noxubee County Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Noxubee County
- ●One soil character for all of Noxubee County
- ●Frost dates read at Noxubee County's scale: Feb 27 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Noxubee County's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
See MY Growing Report
Read your parcel in Noxubee County
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Noxubee County, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Noxubee County averages can't show:
We read public map data around Noxubee County — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Noxubee County average
How we know this about Noxubee County
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at county grain; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at this county’s own record where one resolves, and the labelled statewide window where none does; soils from the USDA NRCS SSURGO survey, area-weighted across the county’s own map units; boundaries and acreage from US Census TIGER/Line 2025; the contamination and pesticide records from the federal sources named in their beats above. Where Noxubee County carries no record of its own, the figure is inherited and labelled — the resolution ledger below names each.
Common questions about Noxubee County
When does frost risk typically end in Noxubee County?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Noxubee County typically lands around Feb 27, 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 20.
How long is the growing season in Noxubee County?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Noxubee County sees about 269 frost-free days — roughly Feb 27 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 20 to Nov 9, about 234 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Noxubee County?
The federal record around Noxubee County shows 152 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (68), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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.
Everything above is measured at Noxubee County's scale — its 8b band and its 269-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Noxubee County's numbers: we read soil, sun, drainage and frost at your exact address. Try it for 14 days — no card required.
Will It Grow Here?
Zone fit is the first question — each answer below reads Mississippi's frost window, season length, and soil profile against the plant's real requirements.
What this page reads at Noxubee County’s own scale
9 of the readings below were taken at Noxubee County's own scale — its own ~269-day span between 28°F freezes, the 3 most extensive soil series mapped here and 152 documented sites inside its boundary; one is borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Noxubee County's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Noxubee County's own 28°F hard-freeze dates and its ~269-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- The soil order, drainage, surface pH, and the 3 most extensive named soil series mapped in Noxubee CountyUSDA NRCS SSURGO
- 152 documented contamination sites inside the county boundary, distance-sorted from its center — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles outFederal environmental registers
- Noxubee County's boundary and the 445,031 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~269-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Noxubee County sitting wholly inside the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Open occurrence records documented in Noxubee County for a tracked speciesGBIF derived datasets (CC0 / CC BY 4.0)
- Which agricultural compounds go onto Noxubee County farmland, and roughly how muchUSGS NAWQA EPest county estimates
Inherited from a wider read
- The growing challenges every Mississippi grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Mississippi
What this page can’t tell you
- How the season shifts across Noxubee County — the ~269 days above is one reading at its centre; the 12 towns below each carry their owntowns in this county →
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Noxubee County's 445,031 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which of those 152 documented sites actually reaches your soil — that needs your address, the wind, and the groundwater directionhow we read the record →
- Where cold air settles, which slopes face the sun, and which way the wind runs on your own ground — none of it survives being averaged over Noxubee Countyread your own land →