Niotaze, Kansas, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Niotaze, 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 Niotaze 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 Niotaze — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Niotaze — the short answer
Niotaze, Kansas: USDA zone 7a, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 237 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 8
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 237 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 7a is Niotaze's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Niotaze's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Niotaze
Each reading below is measured for Niotaze itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredNiotaze runs about 226 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
MeasuredNiotaze sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a.
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 Niotaze is in
Niotaze sits in the Cross Timbers — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Niotaze's own centroid rather than borrowed from Chautauqua County.
What Grows in Niotaze
Every plant below cleared Niotaze's own zone 7a and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Kansas profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Niotaze?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 8 — 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.
What's on the federal record near Niotaze
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Niotaze. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SLEDGE HAMMER REPAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 500 ft
- 35S 13E 08CDD 01Nitrate · 3.9 mi
- 35S 13E 17BBA 01Nitrate · 4.0 mi
- 34S 12E 22CCC 02Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- 34S 12E 22CCC 01Nitrate · 4.1 mi
- 34S 12E 21DDD 02Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- 34S 12E 21DDD 01Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- REDBARN PIPE & SUPPLYBrownfields · 4.3 mi
- 34S 12E 33DADD01Nitrate · 4.5 mi
- 34S 12E 33DDD 01Nitrate · 4.6 mi
- 34S 14E 30BCB 01Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- 34S 14E 19CBB 01Nitrate · 4.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Niotaze'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 Niotaze.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Niotaze
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Niotaze
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Niotaze, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Niotaze — Superfund (8 sites) and Nitrate (46 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Superfund: Superfund sites represent the most severe contamination in the federal system.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Commission professional soil testing before any food production (test for heavy metals, VOCs, and SVOCs).
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Niotaze
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 Niotaze average
Your land is one point inside Niotaze
Everything above resolves to Niotaze as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 237 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 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 Niotaze Average
Niotaze Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Niotaze
- ●One soil character for all of Niotaze
- ●Frost dates read at Niotaze's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 8
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Niotaze's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Niotaze
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Niotaze, Kansas — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Niotaze averages can't show:
We read public map data around Niotaze — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Niotaze average
How we know this about Niotaze
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 Niotaze’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 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 Niotaze
When does frost risk typically end in Niotaze?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Niotaze typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Niotaze?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Niotaze typically arrives around Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 25, so the watching starts about Oct 9 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Niotaze?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Niotaze sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 8, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 25, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Niotaze?
The federal record around Niotaze is a meaningful one — 71 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (46), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile 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 Niotaze?
From about Oct 9 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 8 (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 8. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Niotaze's scale — its 7a band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Niotaze'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 Niotaze’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Niotaze's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 237 acres it covers and 71 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Niotaze's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Niotaze's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 8 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 71 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Niotaze, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Niotaze's boundary and the 237 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Niotaze's own centroid, the Cross TimbersUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Niotaze's 237 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Chautauqua County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Chautauqua County
- The growing challenges every Kansas grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Kansas
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Chautauqua County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Niotaze's 237 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Niotaze you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 237 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 Niotaze-wide figureread your own land →
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