Mooreville, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Mooreville, 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 Mooreville lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mooreville — the short answer
Mooreville, Mississippi: USDA zone 8a, about 262 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~262
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Mooreville's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mooreville's 262-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mooreville
Each reading below is measured for Mooreville itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMooreville runs about 262 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
MeasuredMooreville 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 Mooreville is in
Mooreville sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mooreville's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lee County.
What Grows in Mooreville
Every plant below cleared Mooreville's own zone 8a and its 262-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mooreville?
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 6; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 6 (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.
What's on the federal record near Mooreville
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mooreville. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Short Stop GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- Express Shop #26Underground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- 081J0013 LEENitrate · 0.5 mi
- 081J0031 LEENitrate · 0.6 mi
- 081M0036 LEENitrate · 0.7 mi
- Evans Lumber CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Apac MississippiUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- KC's MartUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Woco Pizza Inn ExpressUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- Mooreville Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- 081M0037 LEENitrate · 1.7 mi
- 081H0093 LEENitrate · 2.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mooreville'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 Mooreville.
Total Sites
525
within ~10 miles of Mooreville
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mooreville
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mooreville
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mooreville, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 51 sites within ~10 miles of Mooreville. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Mooreville
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Mooreville
Everything above resolves to Mooreville as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Mooreville Average
Mooreville Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Mooreville
- ●One soil character for all of Mooreville
- ●Frost dates read at Mooreville's scale: Mar 6 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mooreville's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mooreville
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Three things about your lot that Mooreville averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mooreville — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mooreville average
How we know this about Mooreville
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 Mooreville’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 Mooreville
When does frost risk typically end in Mooreville?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mooreville typically lands around Mar 6, 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 27.
When is the first frost in Mooreville?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mooreville typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 262 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mooreville?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mooreville sees about 262 frost-free days — roughly Mar 6 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 27 to Nov 9, about 227 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mooreville?
The federal record around Mooreville is a meaningful one — 525 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (294), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Mooreville?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mooreville's scale — its 8a band and its 262-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mooreville'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 Mooreville’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Mooreville's own scale — its own ~262-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,788 acres it covers and 525 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mooreville's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mooreville's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 6 and Nov 23 and the ~262-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 525 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mooreville, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mooreville's boundary and the 1,788 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~262-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mooreville's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mooreville's 1,788 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lee County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lee 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 Lee County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mooreville's 1,788 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mooreville you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,788 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Mooreville-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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