Kossuth, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
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 Kossuth, 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 Kossuth lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Kossuth — the short answer
Kossuth, Mississippi: USDA zone 8a, about 239 days between hard freezes, across 618 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- 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
- ~239
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 618 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 8a is Kossuth's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Kossuth's 239-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Kossuth
Each reading below is measured for Kossuth itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredKossuth runs about 239 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
MeasuredKossuth 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 Kossuth is in
Kossuth sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Kossuth's own centroid rather than borrowed from Alcorn County.
What Grows in Kossuth
Every plant below cleared Kossuth's own zone 8a and its 239-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Kossuth?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (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. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Kossuth
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Kossuth. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Flash Market # 193Underground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Kossuth GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Kossuth KwickUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- Kossuth Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Kossuth SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Rickey Talley GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- 003F0016 ALCORNNitrate · 1.4 mi
- Willard Crums GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- Hi Town GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Corinth-alcorn County AirportUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- Phillips Truck StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- 003G0056 ALCORNNitrate · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Kossuth'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 Kossuth.
Total Sites
230
within ~10 miles of Kossuth
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Kossuth
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Kossuth
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Kossuth, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Kossuth. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Kossuth
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 Kossuth average
Your land is one point inside Kossuth
Everything above resolves to Kossuth as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 618 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 Kossuth Average
Kossuth Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Kossuth
- ●One soil character for all of Kossuth
- ●Frost dates read at Kossuth's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 11
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Kossuth's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Kossuth
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Kossuth, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Kossuth averages can't show:
We read public map data around Kossuth — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Kossuth average
How we know this about Kossuth
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 Kossuth’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 Kossuth
When does frost risk typically end in Kossuth?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Kossuth typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Kossuth?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Kossuth 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 239 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Kossuth?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Kossuth sees about 239 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 11, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Oct 28, about 204 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Kossuth?
The federal record around Kossuth is a meaningful one — 230 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (139), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Kossuth?
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 Kossuth's scale — its 8a band and its 239-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Kossuth'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 Kossuth’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Kossuth's own scale — its own ~239-day season between 28°F freezes, the 618 acres it covers and 230 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Kossuth's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Kossuth's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 11 and the ~239-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 230 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Kossuth, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Kossuth's boundary and the 618 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~239-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Kossuth's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Kossuth's 618 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Alcorn County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Alcorn 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 Alcorn County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Kossuth's 618 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Kossuth you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 618 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Kossuth-wide figureread your own land →