New Hebron, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in New Hebron, 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 Hebron 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 Hebron — the short answer
New Hebron, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 281 days between hard freezes, across 429 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 18
- Lawrence County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 26
- Lawrence County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~281
- Lawrence County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 429 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 Lawrence County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is New Hebron's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against New Hebron's 281-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in New Hebron
Each reading below is measured for New Hebron itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsNew Hebron runs about 281 days between hard freezes (read from Lawrence County, the closest normal to New Hebron) — 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 Hebron 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 Hebron is in
New Hebron sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at New Hebron's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lawrence County.
What Grows in New Hebron
Every plant below cleared New Hebron's own zone 8b and its 281-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in New Hebron?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 21; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 18 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 26 — 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 Hebron
Closest first, within ~10 miles of New Hebron. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Lee's DrugstoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1200 ft
- Barnett's Service StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- Sullivan's Gas StationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- New Hebron Quick StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 1800 ft
- T W ShiversUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Berry Chevrolet CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Circle S WoodyardUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Southern Pine EpaUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
- Southern Natural Gas CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.7 mi
- CIRCLE S INCBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- CIRCLE S INCSuperfund · 2.0 mi
- Hodge GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from New Hebron'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 Hebron.
Total Sites
49
within ~10 miles of New Hebron
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of New Hebron
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of New Hebron
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around New Hebron, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 14 sites within ~10 miles of New Hebron. It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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 Hebron
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 Hebron average
Your land is one point inside New Hebron
Everything above resolves to New Hebron as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 429 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Lawrence 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 Hebron Average
New Hebron Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across New Hebron
- ●One soil character for all of New Hebron
- ●Frost dates read at New Hebron's scale: Feb 18 to Nov 26
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not New Hebron's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in New Hebron
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in New Hebron, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that New Hebron averages can't show:
We read public map data around New Hebron — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the New Hebron average
How we know this about New Hebron
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 Lawrence 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 Hebron
When does frost risk typically end in New Hebron?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in New Hebron typically lands around Feb 18, 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 11.
When is the first frost in New Hebron?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in New Hebron typically arrives around Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 12, so the watching starts about Oct 27 — about 281 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in New Hebron?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, New Hebron sees about 281 frost-free days — roughly Feb 18 through Nov 26, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 11 to Nov 12, about 246 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in New Hebron?
The federal record around New Hebron is a meaningful one — 49 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (29), 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 Hebron?
From about Oct 27 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 26 (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 26. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at New Hebron's scale — its 8b band and its 281-day season. Your yard writes its own version of New Hebron'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 Hebron’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at New Hebron's own scale — the 429 acres it covers and 49 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- New Hebron's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 49 documented contamination sites on the federal record near New Hebron, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- New Hebron's boundary and the 429 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~281-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at New Hebron's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — New Hebron has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Lawrence County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so New Hebron's 429 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lawrence County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lawrence 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 Lawrence County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among New Hebron's 429 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of New Hebron you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 429 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 Hebron-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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