Auxvasse, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, 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 Auxvasse, 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 Auxvasse lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Auxvasse — the short answer
Auxvasse, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 219 days between hard freezes, across 483 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 31
- 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
- ~219
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 483 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 Auxvasse's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Auxvasse's 219-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Auxvasse
Each reading below is measured for Auxvasse itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredAuxvasse runs about 219 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
MeasuredAuxvasse 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 Auxvasse is in
Auxvasse sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Auxvasse's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Callaway County is mostly Interior River Valleys and Hills. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Auxvasse
Every plant below cleared Auxvasse's own zone 6b and its 219-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Auxvasse?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 3; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 31 (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. 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.
Documented around Auxvasse
Survey cells within 31 miles of Auxvasse checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 272 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Auxvasse
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Auxvasse. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE #2805Underground Storage Tanks · 200 ft
- PUBLIC SAFETY DEPARTMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- AUXVASSE MAINT BLDGUnderground Storage Tanks · 650 ft
- T49N R09W 14CDC1Nitrate · 800 ft
- WHALEN TRUCK TERMINALUnderground Storage Tanks · 1.1 mi
- AUXVASSE REPEATER STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.1 mi
- BREAK TIME CONV STORE #3051Underground Storage Tanks · 3.2 mi
- HARRISON CREEK FARMS LLCCAFO · 3.5 mi
- T48N R09W 03DBA1Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- T48N R09W 01DDC1Nitrate · 4.2 mi
- T48N R09W 12DAC1Nitrate · 4.9 mi
- KINGDOM CITY PROPERTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Auxvasse'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 Auxvasse.
Total Sites
81
within ~10 miles of Auxvasse
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
9 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Auxvasse
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Auxvasse
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Auxvasse, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Auxvasse — CAFO (6 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (9 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Auxvasse
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 Auxvasse average
Your land is one point inside Auxvasse
Everything above resolves to Auxvasse as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 483 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 Auxvasse Average
Auxvasse Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Auxvasse
- ●One soil character for all of Auxvasse
- ●Frost dates read at Auxvasse's scale: Mar 31 to Nov 5
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Auxvasse's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Auxvasse
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Auxvasse, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Auxvasse averages can't show:
We read public map data around Auxvasse — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Auxvasse average
How we know this about Auxvasse
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 Auxvasse’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 Auxvasse
When does frost risk typically end in Auxvasse?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Auxvasse typically lands around Mar 31, 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 21.
When is the first frost in Auxvasse?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Auxvasse 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 219 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Auxvasse?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Auxvasse sees about 219 frost-free days — roughly Mar 31 through Nov 5, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 21 to Oct 22, about 184 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Auxvasse?
The federal record around Auxvasse shows 81 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (28), 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 Auxvasse?
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 Auxvasse's scale — its 6b band and its 219-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Auxvasse'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 Auxvasse’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Auxvasse's own scale — its own ~219-day season between 28°F freezes, the 483 acres it covers and 81 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Auxvasse's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Auxvasse's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 31 and Nov 5 and the ~219-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 81 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Auxvasse, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Auxvasse's boundary and the 483 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~219-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Auxvasse sits in the Central Irregular Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Auxvasse checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Auxvasse's 483 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Callaway County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Callaway 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 Callaway County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Auxvasse's 483 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Auxvasse you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 483 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 Auxvasse-wide figureread your own land →
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