Bogard, 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.
Growers here do well with cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with the usual caveat that any single yard's soil, sun, and drainage cast the deciding vote.
Even in Bogard, 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 Bogard 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 Bogard — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Bogard — the short answer
Bogard, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 213 days between hard freezes, across 349 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 2
- 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
- ~213
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 349 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 Bogard's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Bogard's 213-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Bogard
Each reading below is measured for Bogard itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredBogard runs about 213 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
MeasuredBogard 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 Bogard is in
Bogard sits in the Central Irregular Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Bogard's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carroll County.
What Grows in Bogard
Every plant below cleared Bogard's own zone 6a and its 213-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Bogard?
For most of the year, no — what changes is which crops still fit the days remaining. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 5; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 2 (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. 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 Bogard
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Bogard. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- HAROLD BAGGS TRUCK LINEUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- BIRCH 66 SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 250 ft
- KEITH JACOBS-JACOBS OILUnderground Storage Tanks · 600 ft
- T53N R23W 07CAC1Nitrate · 2.8 mi
- T53N R24W 12CAD1Nitrate · 3.0 mi
- BURLINGTON NORTHERN RAIL SIDINGUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.8 mi
- T53N R23W 16DCC1Nitrate · 4.5 mi
- KING AG PRODUCTSToxics Release Inventory · 5.1 mi
- CARROLL CO EQUIP COBrownfields · 5.4 mi
- TINA, MO STOCKPILEToxics Release Inventory · 5.6 mi
- CONTINENTAL FABRICATION SERVICESBrownfields · 5.9 mi
- DEXTER AXLEToxics Release Inventory · 6.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Bogard'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 Bogard.
Total Sites
76
within ~10 miles of Bogard
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
5 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Bogard
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Bogard
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Bogard, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Bogard — Nitrate (34 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (5 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Bogard
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 Bogard average
Your land is one point inside Bogard
Everything above resolves to Bogard as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 349 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 Bogard Average
Bogard Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Bogard
- ●One soil character for all of Bogard
- ●Frost dates read at Bogard's scale: Apr 2 to Nov 1
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Bogard's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Bogard
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Bogard, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Bogard averages can't show:
We read public map data around Bogard — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Bogard average
How we know this about Bogard
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 Bogard’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 Bogard
When does frost risk typically end in Bogard?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Bogard typically lands around Apr 2, 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 23.
When is the first frost in Bogard?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Bogard 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 213 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Bogard?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Bogard sees about 213 frost-free days — roughly Apr 2 through Nov 1, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 23 to Oct 18, about 178 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Bogard?
The federal record around Bogard shows 76 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (34), 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 Bogard?
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 Bogard's scale — its 6a band and its 213-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Bogard'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 Bogard’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Bogard's own scale — its own ~213-day season between 28°F freezes, the 349 acres it covers and 76 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Bogard's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Bogard's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 2 and Nov 1 and the ~213-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 76 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Bogard, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Bogard's boundary and the 349 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~213-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Bogard's own centroid, the Central Irregular PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Bogard's 349 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carroll County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carroll 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 Carroll County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Bogard's 349 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Bogard you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 349 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 Bogard-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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