Blodgett, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
These conditions suit cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Blodgett, 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 Blodgett lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Blodgett — the short answer
Blodgett, Missouri: USDA zone 7b, about 246 days between hard freezes, across 104 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~246
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 104 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 7b is Blodgett's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Blodgett's 246-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Blodgett
Each reading below is measured for Blodgett itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBlodgett runs about 246 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
MeasuredBlodgett sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Blodgett is in
Blodgett sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Blodgett's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scott County.
What Grows in Blodgett
Every plant below cleared Blodgett's own zone 7b and its 246-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Blodgett?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 16; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 16 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 17 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
What's on the federal record near Blodgett
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Blodgett. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WATSON'S STATION & MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- T27N R14E 03ADB1Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- SCHOTT POULTRYCAFO · 2.4 mi
- QUALITY PLATINGSuperfund · 3.2 mi
- T26N R14E 19CDD2Nitrate · 3.5 mi
- TRIBUTE FARMCAFO · 3.6 mi
- R. FRAZIER FARMS INC.CAFO · 3.8 mi
- FREED FARMSCAFO · 3.9 mi
- T27N R14E 06ABBNitrate · 3.9 mi
- DIRNBERGER POULTRYCAFO · 4.1 mi
- KELLY HIGH SCHOOL BUS GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- POWELL POULTRY FARM-BRENT POWELLCAFO · 4.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Blodgett'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 Blodgett.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Blodgett
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Blodgett
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Blodgett, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Blodgett — CAFO (7 sites) and Nitrate (62 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 Blodgett
Everything above resolves to Blodgett as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 104 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 Blodgett Average
Blodgett Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Blodgett
- ●One soil character for all of Blodgett
- ●Frost dates read at Blodgett's scale: Mar 16 to Nov 17
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Blodgett's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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We read public map data around Blodgett — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Blodgett
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 Blodgett’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 Blodgett
When does frost risk typically end in Blodgett?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Blodgett typically lands around Mar 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 Apr 6.
When is the first frost in Blodgett?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Blodgett typically arrives around Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 3, so the watching starts about Oct 18 — about 246 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Blodgett?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Blodgett sees about 246 frost-free days — roughly Mar 16 through Nov 17, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 6 to Nov 3, about 211 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Blodgett?
The federal record around Blodgett is a meaningful one — 220 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (101), 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 Blodgett?
From about Oct 18 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 17 (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 17. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Blodgett's scale — its 7b band and its 246-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Blodgett'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 Blodgett’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Blodgett's own scale — its own ~246-day season between 28°F freezes, the 104 acres it covers and 220 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Blodgett's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Blodgett's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 16 and Nov 17 and the ~246-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 220 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Blodgett, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Blodgett's boundary and the 104 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~246-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Blodgett's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Blodgett's 104 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scott County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scott 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 Scott County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Blodgett's 104 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Blodgett you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 104 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 Blodgett-wide figureread your own land →