Tylertown, Mississippi, sits in USDA hardiness zone 8b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
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 Tylertown, 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 Tylertown lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Tylertown — the short answer
Tylertown, Mississippi: USDA zone 8b, about 291 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 8b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Feb 16
- Walthall County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Dec 4
- Walthall County normal — NOAA 1991–2020, nearest to this town
- Days between freezes
- ~291
- Walthall 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 Walthall County’s — the closest measured record, labelled as such rather than passed off as local.
Hardiness Zone Range
Zone 8b is Tylertown's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Tylertown's 291-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Tylertown
Each reading below is measured for Tylertown itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
From county recordsTylertown runs about 291 days between hard freezes (read from Walthall County, the closest normal to Tylertown) — 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
MeasuredTylertown 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 Tylertown is in
Tylertown sits in the Southeastern Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Tylertown's own centroid rather than borrowed from Walthall County.
What Grows in Tylertown
Every plant below cleared Tylertown's own zone 8b and its 291-day season. Each card opens that plant's Mississippi profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Tylertown?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Jan 19; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Feb 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Dec 4 — 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 Tylertown
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Tylertown. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Bst Tylertown Co 76143Underground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- Dewitt Dillon GroceryUnderground Storage Tanks · 700 ft
- Tylertown Maintenance DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 1100 ft
- Barnes Quick MarketUnderground Storage Tanks · 1300 ft
- The FrogpondUnderground Storage Tanks · 1400 ft
- Ball Hardware CorporationUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- The Hiway StoreUnderground Storage Tanks · 1600 ft
- Walthall County Sheriff's DepartmentUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- Grubbs & Hobgood IncUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- Tylertown Union 76Underground Storage Tanks · 2000 ft
- Ella's SweetsUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- Jr Food Mart #65Underground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Tylertown'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 Tylertown.
Total Sites
87
within ~10 miles of Tylertown
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Tylertown
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Tylertown
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Tylertown, Underground Storage Tanks runs higher than the national average — 65 sites within ~10 miles of Tylertown. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
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 Tylertown
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 Tylertown average
Your land is one point inside Tylertown
Everything above resolves to Tylertown as a whole — one PHZM band, read across 2K acres, with hard-freeze dates borrowed from Walthall 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 Tylertown Average
Tylertown Average
- ●USDA Zones 8b, averaged across Tylertown
- ●One soil character for all of Tylertown
- ●Frost dates read at Tylertown's scale: Feb 16 to Dec 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Tylertown's 8b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Tylertown
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Tylertown, Mississippi — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Tylertown averages can't show:
We read public map data around Tylertown — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Tylertown average
How we know this about Tylertown
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 Walthall 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 Tylertown
When does frost risk typically end in Tylertown?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Tylertown typically lands around Feb 16, 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 9.
When is the first frost in Tylertown?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Tylertown typically arrives around Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 20, so the watching starts about Nov 4 — about 291 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Tylertown?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Tylertown sees about 291 frost-free days — roughly Feb 16 through Dec 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 9 to Nov 20, about 256 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Tylertown?
The federal record around Tylertown shows 87 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (65), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Tylertown?
From about Nov 4 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 Dec 4 (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 Dec 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Tylertown's scale — its 8b band and its 291-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Tylertown'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 Tylertown’s own scale
5 of the readings below were taken at Tylertown's own scale — the 2,099 acres it covers and 87 documented sites around it; 5 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Tylertown's own USDA hardiness band, zones 8bUSDA PHZM 2023
- 87 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Tylertown, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Tylertown's boundary and the 2,099 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 8b and a ~291-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Tylertown's own centroid, the Southeastern PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- The 28°F hard-freeze dates — Tylertown has no normal of its own, so its county's is the closest measured readfrom Walthall County
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Tylertown's 2,099 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Walthall County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Walthall 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 Walthall County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Tylertown's 2,099 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Tylertown you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,099 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Tylertown-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MississippiTylertown sits outside our named growing regions, so Mississippi as a whole is its closest context here.