Mount Pleasant, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Mount Pleasant, 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 Mount Pleasant lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Mount Pleasant — the short answer
Mount Pleasant, Mississippi: USDA zone 7b, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 2K 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 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~240
- 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 7b is Mount Pleasant's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Mount Pleasant's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Mount Pleasant
Each reading below is measured for Mount Pleasant itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredMount Pleasant runs about 240 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
MeasuredMount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant is in
Mount Pleasant sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Mount Pleasant's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marshall County.
What Grows in Mount Pleasant
Every plant below cleared Mount Pleasant's own zone 7b and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Mount Pleasant?
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 10 — 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.
Documented around Mount Pleasant
Survey cells within 31 miles of Mount Pleasant checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 169 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Mount Pleasant
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Pleasant Petroleum LLCUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- Loftins GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Larry Smith GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Nu City Truck StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- Marshall County SchoolsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- R C RhoadsUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Ben JonesUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- ENTERPRISE RECOVERY SYSTEMS INCToxics Release Inventory · 4.3 mi
- ENTERPRISE RECOVERY SYSTEMS INCBrownfields · 4.3 mi
- MMC MATERIALS, INC. - ROSSVILLE PLANTToxics Release Inventory · 4.6 mi
- CORELLE BRANDS LLCBrownfields · 4.6 mi
- STC MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Mount Pleasant'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 Mount Pleasant.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Mount Pleasant, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Mount Pleasant — Toxics Release Inventory (18 sites) and Superfund (3 sites). 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.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Check your specific parcel in Mount Pleasant
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Your land is one point inside Mount Pleasant
Everything above resolves to Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant Average
Mount Pleasant Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Mount Pleasant
- ●One soil character for all of Mount Pleasant
- ●Frost dates read at Mount Pleasant's scale: Mar 15 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Mount Pleasant's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Mount Pleasant
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Mount Pleasant, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Mount Pleasant averages can't show:
We read public map data around Mount Pleasant — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Mount Pleasant average
How we know this about Mount Pleasant
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 Mount Pleasant’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 Mount Pleasant
When does frost risk typically end in Mount Pleasant?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Pleasant 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 Mount Pleasant?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Mount Pleasant typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Mount Pleasant?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Mount Pleasant sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 15 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 5 to Oct 27, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Mount Pleasant?
The federal record around Mount Pleasant is a meaningful one — 123 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (67), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 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 Mount Pleasant?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Mount Pleasant's scale — its 7b band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Mount Pleasant'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 Mount Pleasant’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Mount Pleasant's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,533 acres it covers and 123 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Mount Pleasant's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Mount Pleasant's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 15 and Nov 10 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 123 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Mount Pleasant, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Mount Pleasant's boundary and the 1,533 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Mount Pleasant's own centroid, the Mississippi Valley Loess PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Mount Pleasant checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Mount Pleasant's 1,533 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Marshall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Marshall 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 Marshall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Mount Pleasant's 1,533 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Mount Pleasant you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,533 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks 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 Mount Pleasant-wide figureread your own land →