Senatobia, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Senatobia, 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 Senatobia 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 Senatobia — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Senatobia — the short answer
Senatobia, Mississippi: USDA zone 8a, about 250 days between hard freezes, across 10K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 8a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- Tate County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 14
- Tate County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~250
- Tate County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- City area
- 10K 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 Tate County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8a is Senatobia's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Senatobia's 250-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Senatobia
Each reading below is measured for Senatobia itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsSenatobia runs about 250 days between hard freezes (read from Tate County, the closest normal to Senatobia) — 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
MeasuredSenatobia sits in USDA hardiness zone 8a.
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 Senatobia is in
Senatobia sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Senatobia's own centroid rather than borrowed from Tate County.
What Grows in Senatobia
Every plant below cleared Senatobia's own zone 8a and its 250-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Senatobia?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 14 — 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 Senatobia
Survey cells within 31 miles of Senatobia checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 201 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Senatobia
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Senatobia. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Tate County District 1Underground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- Pepsi Cola Dba Mid-south BeverageUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- CRYSTAL FINISHING SYSTEMS INCBrownfields · 0.6 mi
- CRYSTAL FINISHING SYSTEMS INCToxics Release Inventory · 0.6 mi
- Krueger SenatobiaUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Baddour Memorial CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- Senatobia Maintenance Hq MshdUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- C & C Service CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Discount Food Mart & TobaccoUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Mac's Muffler CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Thystins GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.9 mi
- Senatobia Food Mart #240Underground Storage Tanks · 1.0 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Senatobia'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 Senatobia.
Total Sites
122
within ~10 miles of Senatobia
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Senatobia
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Senatobia
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Senatobia, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 87 sites within ~10 miles of Senatobia. Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Senatobia
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 Senatobia average
Your land is one point inside Senatobia
Everything above resolves to Senatobia as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 10K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Tate County’s record because no 30-year normal resolves at this city’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 city 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 Senatobia Average
Senatobia Average
- ●USDA Zones 8a, averaged across Senatobia
- ●One soil character for all of Senatobia
- ●Frost dates read at Senatobia's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 14
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Senatobia's 8a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Senatobia
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Senatobia, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Senatobia averages can't show:
We read public map data around Senatobia — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Senatobia average
How we know this about Senatobia
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this city’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Tate 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 city grain anywhere on this page — there is no city-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 Senatobia
When does frost risk typically end in Senatobia?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Senatobia typically lands around Mar 9, 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 30.
When is the first frost in Senatobia?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Senatobia typically arrives around Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 31, so the watching starts about Oct 15 — about 250 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Senatobia?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Senatobia sees about 250 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Nov 14, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Oct 31, about 215 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Senatobia?
The federal record around Senatobia is a meaningful one — 122 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (87), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Senatobia?
From about Oct 15 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 14 (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 14. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Senatobia's scale — its 8a band and its 250-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Senatobia'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 Senatobia’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Senatobia's own scale — the 9,957 acres it covers and 122 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Senatobia's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8aUSDA PHZM 2023
- 122 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Senatobia, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Senatobia's boundary and the 9,957 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8a and a ~250-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Senatobia's own centroid, the Mississippi Valley Loess PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Senatobia checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Senatobia has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Tate County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Senatobia's 9,957 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Tate County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Tate 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 Tate County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Senatobia's 9,957 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Senatobia you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 9,957 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 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 Senatobia-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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