New Augusta, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Augusta, 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 New Augusta lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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New Augusta — the short answer
New Augusta, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 283 days between hard freezes, across 3K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 20
- Perry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- Perry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~283
- Perry County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 3K acres
- US Census TIGER/Line 2025
Every figure names the dataset it came from. No 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid, so the hard-freeze dates are Perry County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is New Augusta's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Augusta's 283-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Augusta
Each reading below is measured for New Augusta itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNew Augusta runs about 283 days between hard freezes (read from Perry County, the closest normal to New Augusta) — 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
MeasuredNew Augusta sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b.
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 New Augusta is in
New Augusta sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Augusta's own centroid rather than borrowed from Perry County.
What Grows in New Augusta
Every plant below cleared New Augusta's own zone 8b and its 283-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Augusta?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 23; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 30 — 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 New Augusta
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Augusta. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- New Augusta Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 850 ft
- Perry County Board Of SupervisorsUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- 111H0015 PERRYNitrate · 1400 ft
- 111H0014 PERRYNitrate · 1500 ft
- Erambert Seed OrchardUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- School Bus ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Butches GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Tator's EXXONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Jr Food Store #352Underground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Circle K # 2723390Underground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- 111H0036 PERRYNitrate · 2.2 mi
- LEAF RIVER FOREST PRODUCTS, LLCBrownfields · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Augusta'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 New Augusta.
Total Sites
76
within ~10 miles of New Augusta
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Augusta
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Augusta
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Augusta, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 48 sites within ~10 miles of New Augusta. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in New Augusta
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 New Augusta average
Your land is one point inside New Augusta
Everything above resolves to New Augusta as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 3K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Perry County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this town’s own centroid. 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 New Augusta Average
New Augusta Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across New Augusta
- ●One soil character for all of New Augusta
- ●Frost dates read at New Augusta's scale: Feb 20 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Augusta's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Augusta
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Augusta, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Augusta averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Augusta — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Augusta average
How we know this about New Augusta
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 Perry County’s record, because none resolves here; 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 New Augusta
When does frost risk typically end in New Augusta?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Augusta typically lands around Feb 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 Mar 13.
When is the first frost in New Augusta?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Augusta typically arrives around Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 16, so the watching starts about Oct 31 — about 283 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Augusta?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Augusta sees about 283 frost-free days — roughly Feb 20 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 13 to Nov 16, about 248 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Augusta?
The federal record around New Augusta is a meaningful one — 76 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (48), 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 New Augusta?
From about Oct 31 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 30 (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 30. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Augusta's scale — its 8b band and its 283-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Augusta'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 New Augusta’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at New Augusta's own scale — the 3,292 acres it covers and 76 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Augusta's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 76 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Augusta, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Augusta's boundary and the 3,292 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~283-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Augusta's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — New Augusta has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Perry County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Augusta's 3,292 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Perry County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Perry 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 Perry County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Augusta's 3,292 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Augusta you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,292 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 New Augusta-wide figureread your own land →
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