Falkner, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
On paper, cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Falkner, 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 Falkner lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Falkner — the short answer
Falkner, Mississippi: USDA zone 7b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. Hard-freeze dates are this town’s own 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 7b is Falkner's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Falkner's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Falkner
Each reading below is measured for Falkner itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFalkner runs about 236 days between hard freezes — 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
MeasuredFalkner sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Falkner is in
Falkner sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Falkner's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tippah County.
What Grows in Falkner
Every plant below cleared Falkner's own zone 7b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Falkner?
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 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 11 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Falkner
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Falkner. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 139E0028 TIPPAHNitrate · 2300 ft
- Rutherford Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Tippah Construction CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- 139E0013 TIPPAHNitrate · 1.2 mi
- Gay Truck LineUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Big Red Jr Food StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- M H Graves & Son FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- Tippah Lake DeliUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
- D AND J CHEVROLETBrownfields · 2.5 mi
- ECOWATER SYSTEMS LLCBrownfields · 2.7 mi
- Gelco Truck LeasingUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- GRT RUBBER RIPLEY OPERATIONSToxics Release Inventory · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Falkner'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 Falkner.
Total Sites
110
within ~10 miles of Falkner
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Falkner
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Falkner
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Falkner, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 9 sites within ~10 miles of Falkner. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Falkner
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 Falkner average
Your land is one point inside Falkner
Everything above resolves to Falkner as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 3K 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 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 Falkner Average
Falkner Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Falkner
- ●One soil character for all of Falkner
- ●Frost dates read at Falkner's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Falkner's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Falkner
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Falkner, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Falkner averages can't show:
We read public map data around Falkner — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Falkner average
How we know this about Falkner
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 Falkner’s own record; 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 Falkner
When does frost risk typically end in Falkner?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Falkner typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 10.
When is the first frost in Falkner?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Falkner typically arrives around Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 28, so the watching starts about Oct 12 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Falkner?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Falkner sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Oct 28, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Falkner?
The federal record around Falkner shows 110 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (66), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Falkner?
From about Oct 12 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 11 (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 11. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Falkner's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Falkner'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 Falkner’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Falkner's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,244 acres it covers and 110 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Falkner's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Falkner's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 11 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 110 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Falkner, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Falkner's boundary and the 3,244 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Falkner's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Falkner's 3,244 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tippah County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tippah 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 Tippah County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Falkner's 3,244 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Falkner you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,244 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Falkner-wide figureread your own land →