Jumpertown, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Jumpertown, 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 Jumpertown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Jumpertown — the short answer
Jumpertown, Mississippi: USDA zone 7b, about 243 days between hard freezes, across 1K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 13
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~243
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 1K 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 Jumpertown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Jumpertown's 243-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Jumpertown
Each reading below is measured for Jumpertown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredJumpertown runs about 243 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
MeasuredJumpertown 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 Jumpertown is in
Jumpertown sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Jumpertown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Prentiss County.
What Grows in Jumpertown
Every plant below cleared Jumpertown's own zone 7b and its 243-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Jumpertown?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 15; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 15 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 13 — 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 Jumpertown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Jumpertown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Green FertlizerUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Jumper's Super MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 117A0064 PRENTISSNitrate · 2.4 mi
- Dry Creek StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- Blackland Trading PostUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- BRAD RAGAN TIRE AND APPLIANCEBrownfields · 4.6 mi
- Myrtis L FugittUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.8 mi
- Carolina Country StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- Yates GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- Chapman's StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.0 mi
- JR's Food MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
- School Bus Maintenance ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Jumpertown'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 Jumpertown.
Total Sites
144
within ~10 miles of Jumpertown
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
12 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Jumpertown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Jumpertown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Jumpertown, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Jumpertown — PFAS (3 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (12 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Jumpertown
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 Jumpertown average
Your land is one point inside Jumpertown
Everything above resolves to Jumpertown as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 1K 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 Jumpertown Average
Jumpertown Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Jumpertown
- ●One soil character for all of Jumpertown
- ●Frost dates read at Jumpertown's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 13
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Jumpertown's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Jumpertown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Jumpertown, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Jumpertown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Jumpertown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Jumpertown average
How we know this about Jumpertown
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 Jumpertown’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 Jumpertown
When does frost risk typically end in Jumpertown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Jumpertown typically lands around Mar 15, 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 5.
When is the first frost in Jumpertown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Jumpertown typically arrives around Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 30, so the watching starts about Oct 14 — about 243 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Jumpertown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Jumpertown sees about 243 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 13, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Oct 30, about 208 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Jumpertown?
The federal record around Jumpertown is a meaningful one — 144 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (85), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Jumpertown?
From about Oct 14 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 13 (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 13. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Jumpertown's scale — its 7b band and its 243-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Jumpertown'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 Jumpertown’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Jumpertown's own scale — its own ~243-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,145 acres it covers and 144 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Jumpertown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Jumpertown's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 13 and the ~243-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 144 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Jumpertown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Jumpertown's boundary and the 1,145 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~243-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Jumpertown's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Jumpertown's 1,145 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Prentiss County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Prentiss 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 Prentiss County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Jumpertown's 1,145 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Jumpertown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,145 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 Jumpertown-wide figureread your own land →