Amoret, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Amoret, 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 Amoret lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Amoret — the short answer
Amoret, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 221 days between hard freezes, across 137 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 5
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~221
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 137 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 6b is Amoret's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Amoret's 221-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Amoret
Each reading below is measured for Amoret itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAmoret runs about 221 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
MeasuredAmoret sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Amoret is in
Amoret sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Amoret's own centroid rather than borrowed from Bates County.
What Grows in Amoret
Every plant below cleared Amoret's own zone 6b and its 221-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Amoret?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 5 — 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 Amoret
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Amoret. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WHITEMAN AFB KILO-10Underground Storage Tanks · 4.5 mi
- BUTLER VORUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- T39N R33W 11ABB1Nitrate · 5.8 mi
- GREENTEC RECYCLINGBrownfields · 6.3 mi
- LA CYGNE GENERATING STATIONToxics Release Inventory · 6.4 mi
- LA CYGNE GENERATING STATIONBrownfields · 6.4 mi
- HUGHES SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.5 mi
- JOHNSON FISHING COMPANY BASS BUTLER DIVISIONToxics Release Inventory · 6.5 mi
- ERICKSON GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.6 mi
- N RAILROAD TRACKSUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.7 mi
- LA CYGNE GENERATING STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- AMSTERDAM MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Amoret'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 Amoret.
Total Sites
45
within ~10 miles of Amoret
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
2 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Amoret
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Amoret
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Amoret, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Amoret — CAFO (3 sites) and Nitrate (12 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Amoret
Everything above resolves to Amoret as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 137 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 Amoret Average
Amoret Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Amoret
- ●One soil character for all of Amoret
- ●Frost dates read at Amoret's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Amoret's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Amoret
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Amoret, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Amoret averages can't show:
We read public map data around Amoret — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Amoret average
How we know this about Amoret
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 Amoret’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 Amoret
When does frost risk typically end in Amoret?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Amoret typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Amoret?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Amoret typically arrives around Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 22, so the watching starts about Oct 6 — about 221 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Amoret?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Amoret sees about 221 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 22, about 186 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Amoret?
The federal record around Amoret is light — 45 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (22), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 4.5 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 Amoret?
From about Oct 6 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 5 (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 5. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Amoret's scale — its 6b band and its 221-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Amoret'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 Amoret’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Amoret's own scale — its own ~221-day season between 28°F freezes, the 137 acres it covers and 45 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Amoret's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Amoret's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 5 and the ~221-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 45 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Amoret, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 4.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Amoret's boundary and the 137 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~221-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Amoret's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Amoret's 137 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Bates County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Bates County
- The growing challenges every Missouri grower plans around — written at state scale, so they stay on the state guidefrom Missouri
- Butterfly and beetle records, and the farmland pesticide estimate — all published county-widefrom Bates County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Amoret's 137 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Amoret you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 137 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 4.5 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 Amoret-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
What grows across MissouriAmoret sits outside our named growing regions, so Missouri as a whole is its closest context here.