Red Banks, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Red Banks, 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 Red Banks lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Red Banks — the short answer
Red Banks, Mississippi: USDA zone 7b, about 237 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~237
- 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 Red Banks's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Red Banks's 237-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Red Banks
Each reading below is measured for Red Banks itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredRed Banks runs about 237 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
MeasuredRed Banks 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 Red Banks is in
Red Banks sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Red Banks's own centroid rather than borrowed from Marshall County.
What Grows in Red Banks
Every plant below cleared Red Banks's own zone 7b and its 237-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Red Banks?
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 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 9 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Red Banks
Survey cells within 31 miles of Red Banks checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 173 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Red Banks
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Red Banks. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- 093K0001 MARSHALLNitrate · 1200 ft
- Deberrys GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- Jo Jo's Travel CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- Farm Air ServiceUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- Watkins GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.1 mi
- Jewell Aircraft IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Five Star MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Lee's Crossing General StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Holly Springs-marshall County AirportUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- Hli VorUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- H & R GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- M & M GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Red Banks'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 Red Banks.
Total Sites
140
within ~10 miles of Red Banks
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
14 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Red Banks
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Red Banks
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Red Banks, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Red Banks — Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (97 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Red Banks
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 Red Banks average
Your land is one point inside Red Banks
Everything above resolves to Red Banks 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 Red Banks Average
Red Banks Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Red Banks
- ●One soil character for all of Red Banks
- ●Frost dates read at Red Banks's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 9
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Red Banks's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Red Banks
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Red Banks, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Red Banks averages can't show:
We read public map data around Red Banks — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Red Banks average
How we know this about Red Banks
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 Red Banks’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 Red Banks
When does frost risk typically end in Red Banks?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Red Banks typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Red Banks?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Red Banks typically arrives around Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 26, so the watching starts about Oct 10 — about 237 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Red Banks?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Red Banks sees about 237 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 9, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Oct 26, about 202 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Red Banks?
The federal record around Red Banks shows 140 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (97), the nearest Nitrate 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 Red Banks?
From about Oct 10 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 9 (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 9. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Red Banks's scale — its 7b band and its 237-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Red Banks'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 Red Banks’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Red Banks's own scale — its own ~237-day season between 28°F freezes, the 1,702 acres it covers and 140 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Red Banks's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Red Banks's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 9 and the ~237-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 140 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Red Banks, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Red Banks's boundary and the 1,702 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~237-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Red Banks's own centroid, the Mississippi Valley Loess PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Red Banks 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 Red Banks's 1,702 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 Red Banks's 1,702 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Red Banks you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 1,702 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Red Banks-wide figureread your own land →