Bloomfield, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Bloomfield, 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 Bloomfield 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 Bloomfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bloomfield — the short answer
Bloomfield, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 240 days between hard freezes, across 788 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 20
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 15
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~240
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 788 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 Bloomfield's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bloomfield's 240-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bloomfield
Each reading below is measured for Bloomfield itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBloomfield runs about 240 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
MeasuredBloomfield 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 Bloomfield is in
Bloomfield sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Bloomfield's own centroid, and it is not what its county reads: Stoddard County is mostly Mississippi Alluvial Plain. The wider page above you is answering a different question about different ground.
What Grows in Bloomfield
Every plant below cleared Bloomfield's own zone 7a and its 240-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bloomfield?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 20; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 20 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 15 — 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.
Documented around Bloomfield
Survey cells within 31 miles of Bloomfield checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 187 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Bloomfield
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bloomfield. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- WETHINGTON TIRE & AUTO CAREUnderground Storage Tanks · 400 ft
- CHARLES GLASSUnderground Storage Tanks · 550 ft
- T26N R10E 23ADA2Nitrate · 600 ft
- STREET SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- T26N R10E 23ADA3Nitrate · 700 ft
- T26N R10E 23ADA4Nitrate · 750 ft
- BLOOMFIELD R-XIV PUBLIC SCHOOLSUnderground Storage Tanks · 1500 ft
- LONG SERVICE STATION - BILL RHODESUnderground Storage Tanks · 1900 ft
- BLOOMFIELD ""C"" MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- SCOTT-NEW MADRID-MISSISSIPPI EL CORUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.6 mi
- BLOOMFIELDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.9 mi
- LEMONS EAST RNGBrownfields · 3.6 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bloomfield'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 Bloomfield.
Total Sites
113
within ~10 miles of Bloomfield
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
8 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bloomfield
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bloomfield
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bloomfield, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bloomfield — Toxics Release Inventory (8 sites) and Nitrate (30 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check your specific parcel in Bloomfield
Get exact proximity distances to contamination sources for your specific parcel — plus soil, sun, drainage, and 1,086 plant recommendations.
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Your land is one point inside Bloomfield
Everything above resolves to Bloomfield as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 788 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 Bloomfield Average
Bloomfield Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Bloomfield
- ●One soil character for all of Bloomfield
- ●Frost dates read at Bloomfield's scale: Mar 20 to Nov 15
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bloomfield's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bloomfield
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bloomfield, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bloomfield averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bloomfield — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bloomfield average
How we know this about Bloomfield
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 Bloomfield’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 Bloomfield
When does frost risk typically end in Bloomfield?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomfield typically lands around Mar 20, 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 10.
When is the first frost in Bloomfield?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bloomfield typically arrives around Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 1, so the watching starts about Oct 16 — about 240 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bloomfield?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bloomfield sees about 240 frost-free days — roughly Mar 20 through Nov 15, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 10 to Nov 1, about 205 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bloomfield?
The federal record around Bloomfield shows 113 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (61), 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 Bloomfield?
From about Oct 16 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 15 (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 15. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Bloomfield's scale — its 7a band and its 240-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bloomfield'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 Bloomfield’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Bloomfield's own scale — its own ~240-day season between 28°F freezes, the 788 acres it covers and 113 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bloomfield's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bloomfield's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 20 and Nov 15 and the ~240-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 113 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bloomfield, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bloomfield's boundary and the 788 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~240-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- Bloomfield sits in the Mississippi Valley Loess Plains — not the ecoregion its county mostly readsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Bloomfield 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 Bloomfield's 788 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Stoddard County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Stoddard 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 Stoddard County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bloomfield's 788 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bloomfield you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 788 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 Bloomfield-wide figureread your own land →
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