Baring, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
The conditions favor cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens, among others — though every individual site edits that list with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Baring, 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 Baring lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Baring — the short answer
Baring, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 211 days between hard freezes, across 81 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 1
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~211
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 81 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 6a is Baring's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Baring's 211-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Baring
Each reading below is measured for Baring itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBaring runs about 211 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
MeasuredBaring sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a.
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 Baring is in
Baring sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Baring's own centroid rather than borrowed from Knox County.
What Grows in Baring
Every plant below cleared Baring's own zone 6a and its 211-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Baring?
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 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 1 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. A long window like this one runs successions deep into fall — and even its last weeks take quick greens and garlic.
What's on the federal record near Baring
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Baring. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- DARYL BURKHOLDERCAFO · 2.9 mi
- RAYMOND BURKHOLDER, JR.CAFO · 3.6 mi
- EDINA MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- THOMAS RAY FOXCAFO · 4.6 mi
- HARLAN BURKHOLDERCAFO · 4.6 mi
- MARVIN PENNCAFO · 5.5 mi
- VACANT (FORMERLY SERVICE STATION)Underground Storage Tanks · 5.5 mi
- YESWAY #1136Underground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- NORTHEAST MO COOP STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- CAHALAN SINCLAIRUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- CASEYS GENERAL STORE #2600Underground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
- FISHER'S 66 SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Baring'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 Baring.
Total Sites
21
within ~10 miles of Baring
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
7 concentrated animal feeding operations
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Baring
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Baring
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Large animal operations push nitrates and bacteria downstream. Below one, test your water.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
Check your specific parcel in Baring
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 Baring average
Your land is one point inside Baring
Everything above resolves to Baring as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 81 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 Baring Average
Baring Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Baring
- ●One soil character for all of Baring
- ●Frost dates read at Baring's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Baring's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Baring
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We read public map data around Baring — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Baring average
How we know this about Baring
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 Baring’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 Baring
When does frost risk typically end in Baring?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Baring typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Baring?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Baring typically arrives around Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 18, so the watching starts about Oct 2 — about 211 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Baring?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Baring sees about 211 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 18, about 176 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Baring?
The federal record around Baring shows 21 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (12), the nearest CAFO record about 2.9 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 Baring?
From about Oct 2 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 1 (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 1. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Baring's scale — its 6a band and its 211-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Baring'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 Baring’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Baring's own scale — its own ~211-day season between 28°F freezes, the 81 acres it covers and 21 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Baring's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Baring's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 1 and the ~211-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 21 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Baring, the closest CAFO record about 2.9 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Baring's boundary and the 81 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~211-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Baring's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Baring's 81 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Knox County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Knox 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 Knox County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Baring's 81 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Baring you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 81 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest CAFO record about 2.9 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 Baring-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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