Deering, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Deering, 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 Deering lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Deering — the short answer
Deering, Missouri: USDA zone 7b, about 259 days between hard freezes, across 189 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 9
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~259
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 189 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 Deering's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Deering's 259-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Deering
Each reading below is measured for Deering itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDeering runs about 259 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
MeasuredDeering 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 Deering is in
Deering sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Deering's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pemiscot County.
What Grows in Deering
Every plant below cleared Deering's own zone 7b and its 259-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Deering?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 9; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 9 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
What's on the federal record near Deering
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Deering. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T18N R11E 17DCD1Nitrate · 2200 ft
- T19N R10E 26ABD1Nitrate · 5.7 mi
- HAYTI INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- T19N R11E 23DBD1Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- MIDWAY #12Underground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- KENNETT MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- RJS GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.9 mi
- GARDNER STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- T19N R10E 12DBD1Nitrate · 7.4 mi
- UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- LOXCREEN COMPANY INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- LOXCREENToxics Release Inventory · 7.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Deering'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 Deering.
Total Sites
113
within ~10 miles of Deering
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
10 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Deering
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Deering
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Deering, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Deering — Toxics Release Inventory (10 sites) and Nitrate (34 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around it.
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 Deering
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 Deering average
Your land is one point inside Deering
Everything above resolves to Deering as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 189 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 town 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 Deering Average
Deering Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Deering
- ●One soil character for all of Deering
- ●Frost dates read at Deering's scale: Mar 9 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Deering's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Deering
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Deering, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Deering averages can't show:
We read public map data around Deering — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Deering average
How we know this about Deering
The datasets: hardiness from the USDA ARS Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023, read at this town’s own centroid; hard-freeze dates from NOAA 1991–2020 28°F normals at Deering’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 town grain anywhere on this page — there is no town-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 Deering
When does frost risk typically end in Deering?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Deering typically lands around Mar 9, 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 Mar 30.
When is the first frost in Deering?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Deering typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 259 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Deering?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Deering sees about 259 frost-free days — roughly Mar 9 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Mar 30 to Nov 9, about 224 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Deering?
The federal record around Deering shows 113 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (57), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Deering?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Deering's scale — its 7b band and its 259-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Deering'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 Deering’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Deering's own scale — its own ~259-day season between 28°F freezes, the 189 acres it covers and 113 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Deering's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Deering's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 9 and Nov 23 and the ~259-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 113 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Deering, the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Deering's boundary and the 189 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~259-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Deering's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Deering's 189 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pemiscot County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pemiscot 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 Pemiscot County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Deering's 189 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Deering you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 189 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 0.4 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 Deering-wide figureread your own land →