Snow Lake Shores, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, prickly pear, 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 Snow Lake Shores, 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 Snow Lake Shores lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Snow Lake Shores — the short answer
Snow Lake Shores, Mississippi: USDA zone 7b, about 236 days between hard freezes, across 436 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 19
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~236
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 436 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 Snow Lake Shores's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Snow Lake Shores's 236-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Snow Lake Shores
Each reading below is measured for Snow Lake Shores itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredSnow Lake Shores runs about 236 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
MeasuredSnow Lake Shores 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 Snow Lake Shores is in
Snow Lake Shores sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Snow Lake Shores's own centroid rather than borrowed from Benton County.
What Grows in Snow Lake Shores
Every plant below cleared Snow Lake Shores's own zone 7b and its 236-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Snow Lake Shores?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 19 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Snow Lake Shores
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Snow Lake Shores. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Linda's One StopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2500 ft
- TVA MAGNOLIA COMBINED CYCLEBrownfields · 0.7 mi
- TVA MAGNOLIA COMBINED CYCLEToxics Release Inventory · 0.7 mi
- Terry's Trading PostUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- 009H0060 BENTONNitrate · 2.2 mi
- Benton County District 3 ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.7 mi
- B & B GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.8 mi
- Strickland Food ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- Citgo Super CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- Bryant GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.0 mi
- Benton County Sheriff's DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- KkUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Snow Lake Shores'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 Snow Lake Shores.
Total Sites
45
within ~10 miles of Snow Lake Shores
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Snow Lake Shores
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Snow Lake Shores
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Snow Lake Shores, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Snow Lake Shores — Underground Storage Tanks (29 sites) and Nitrate (12 sites). 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Snow Lake Shores
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Your land is one point inside Snow Lake Shores
Everything above resolves to Snow Lake Shores as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 436 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 Snow Lake Shores Average
Snow Lake Shores Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Snow Lake Shores
- ●One soil character for all of Snow Lake Shores
- ●Frost dates read at Snow Lake Shores's scale: Mar 19 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Snow Lake Shores's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Snow Lake Shores
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Snow Lake Shores, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Snow Lake Shores averages can't show:
We read public map data around Snow Lake Shores — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Snow Lake Shores average
How we know this about Snow Lake Shores
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 Snow Lake Shores’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 Snow Lake Shores
When does frost risk typically end in Snow Lake Shores?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Snow Lake Shores typically lands around Mar 19, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Snow Lake Shores?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Snow Lake Shores typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 236 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Snow Lake Shores?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Snow Lake Shores sees about 236 frost-free days — roughly Mar 19 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 9 to Oct 27, about 201 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Snow Lake Shores?
The federal record around Snow Lake Shores is light — 45 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (29), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Snow Lake Shores?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Snow Lake Shores's scale — its 7b band and its 236-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Snow Lake Shores'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 Snow Lake Shores’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Snow Lake Shores's own scale — its own ~236-day season between 28°F freezes, the 436 acres it covers and 45 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Snow Lake Shores's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Snow Lake Shores's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 19 and Nov 10 and the ~236-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 45 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Snow Lake Shores, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Snow Lake Shores's boundary and the 436 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~236-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Snow Lake Shores's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Snow Lake Shores's 436 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Benton County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Benton 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 Benton County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Snow Lake Shores's 436 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Snow Lake Shores you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 436 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 Snow Lake Shores-wide figureread your own land →