Standing Pine, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Expect cabbage, fig, california poppy, and collard greens to be strong candidates here; the deciding factors on any one parcel stay local — soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Standing Pine, 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 Standing Pine lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Standing Pine — the short answer
Standing Pine, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 264 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 3
- Leake County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 22
- Leake County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~264
- Leake County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Town area
- 2K 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 Leake County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Standing Pine's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Standing Pine's 264-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Standing Pine
Each reading below is measured for Standing Pine itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsStanding Pine runs about 264 days between hard freezes (read from Leake County, the closest normal to Standing Pine) — 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
MeasuredStanding Pine 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 Standing Pine is in
Standing Pine sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Standing Pine's own centroid rather than borrowed from Leake County.
What Grows in Standing Pine
Every plant below cleared Standing Pine's own zone 8b and its 264-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Standing Pine?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 3 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 22 — 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 Standing Pine
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Standing Pine. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- People's GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.8 mi
- Lewis GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.8 mi
- Bryan GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
- 079L0034 LEAKENitrate · 3.5 mi
- Thomas Stop & ShopUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- Twin CityUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- TYSON WALNUT GROVE HATCHERYBrownfields · 4.0 mi
- Old Town GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- South Leake Elementary SchoolUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- South Leake Attendance CenterUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.0 mi
- Fish MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- Upton Motor CompanyUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Standing Pine'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 Standing Pine.
Total Sites
117
within ~10 miles of Standing Pine
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Standing Pine
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Standing Pine
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Standing Pine, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Standing Pine — CAFO (3 sites) and Underground Storage Tanks (77 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Underground Storage Tanks: Underground storage tanks are the single most common source of soil contamination near homes and gardens.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Use raised beds with imported soil — this eliminates the primary soil-contact pathway.
Check your specific parcel in Standing Pine
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 Standing Pine average
Your land is one point inside Standing Pine
Everything above resolves to Standing Pine as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Leake 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 Standing Pine Average
Standing Pine Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Standing Pine
- ●One soil character for all of Standing Pine
- ●Frost dates read at Standing Pine's scale: Mar 3 to Nov 22
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Standing Pine's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Standing Pine
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Standing Pine, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Standing Pine averages can't show:
We read public map data around Standing Pine — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Standing Pine average
How we know this about Standing Pine
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 Leake 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 Standing Pine
When does frost risk typically end in Standing Pine?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Standing Pine typically lands around Mar 3, 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 24.
When is the first frost in Standing Pine?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Standing Pine typically arrives around Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 8, so the watching starts about Oct 23 — about 264 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Standing Pine?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Standing Pine sees about 264 frost-free days — roughly Mar 3 through Nov 22, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 24 to Nov 8, about 229 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Standing Pine?
The federal record around Standing Pine shows 117 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (77), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Standing Pine?
From about Oct 23 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 22 (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 22. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Standing Pine's scale — its 8b band and its 264-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Standing Pine'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 Standing Pine’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Standing Pine's own scale — the 2,235 acres it covers and 117 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Standing Pine's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 117 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Standing Pine, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Standing Pine's boundary and the 2,235 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~264-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Standing Pine's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Standing Pine has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Leake County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Standing Pine's 2,235 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Leake County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Leake 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 Leake County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Standing Pine's 2,235 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Standing Pine you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,235 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.8 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 Standing Pine-wide figureread your own land →
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