Panther Burn, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
The conditions favor cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Panther Burn, 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 Panther Burn lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
We read public map data around Panther Burn — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Panther Burn — the short answer
Panther Burn, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 285 days between hard freezes, across 412 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 18
- Sharkey County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 30
- Sharkey County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~285
- Sharkey County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 412 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 Sharkey County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Panther Burn's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Panther Burn's 285-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Panther Burn
Each reading below is measured for Panther Burn itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsPanther Burn runs about 285 days between hard freezes (read from Sharkey County, the closest normal to Panther Burn) — 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
MeasuredPanther Burn 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 Panther Burn is in
Panther Burn sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Panther Burn's own centroid rather than borrowed from Sharkey County.
What Grows in Panther Burn
Every plant below cleared Panther Burn's own zone 8b and its 285-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Panther Burn?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 30 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. And with a calendar this mild, the honest answer is that planting barely stops — winter opens seasons colder regions never see.
What's on the federal record near Panther Burn
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Panther Burn. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Wilson's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Phelps FarmUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- 151O0018 WASHINGTONNitrate · 3.6 mi
- 151P0033 WASHINGTONNitrate · 4.3 mi
- CametaUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.4 mi
- Lillie R BrownUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- 151S0001 WASHINGTONNitrate · 4.7 mi
- W C Woodruff IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- 151P0030 WASHINGTONNitrate · 5.2 mi
- 125A0006 SHARKEYNitrate · 5.5 mi
- 151S0061 WASHINGTONNitrate · 5.6 mi
- Usfws Yazoo Natl Wildlife RefugeUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Panther Burn'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 Panther Burn.
Total Sites
106
within ~10 miles of Panther Burn
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Panther Burn
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Panther Burn
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Panther Burn, Nitrate runs higher than the national average — 62 sites within ~10 miles of Panther Burn. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
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 Panther Burn
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 Panther Burn average
Your land is one point inside Panther Burn
Everything above resolves to Panther Burn as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 412 acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Sharkey 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 Panther Burn Average
Panther Burn Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Panther Burn
- ●One soil character for all of Panther Burn
- ●Frost dates read at Panther Burn's scale: Feb 18 to Nov 30
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Panther Burn's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Panther Burn
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Panther Burn, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Panther Burn averages can't show:
We read public map data around Panther Burn — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Panther Burn average
How we know this about Panther Burn
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 Sharkey 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 Panther Burn
When does frost risk typically end in Panther Burn?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Panther Burn 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 Panther Burn?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Panther Burn 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 285 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Panther Burn?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Panther Burn sees about 285 frost-free days — roughly Feb 18 through Nov 30, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 11 to Nov 16, about 250 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Panther Burn?
The federal record around Panther Burn shows 106 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (62), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out — a typical footprint for a growing area, and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. It's worth seeing which recorded sites sit closest to where you grow, and testing the soil before new food beds near any of them.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Panther Burn?
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 Panther Burn's scale — its 8b band and its 285-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Panther Burn'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 Panther Burn’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Panther Burn's own scale — the 412 acres it covers and 106 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Panther Burn's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 106 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Panther Burn, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Panther Burn's boundary and the 412 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~285-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Panther Burn's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Panther Burn has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Sharkey County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Panther Burn's 412 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Sharkey County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Sharkey 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 Sharkey County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Panther Burn's 412 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Panther Burn you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 412 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 Panther Burn-wide figureread your own land →
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