Duenweg, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Duenweg, 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 Duenweg lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Duenweg — the short answer
Duenweg, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 225 days between hard freezes, across 2K acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 26
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 6
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~225
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 2K 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 Duenweg's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Duenweg's 225-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Duenweg
Each reading below is measured for Duenweg itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredDuenweg runs about 225 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
MeasuredDuenweg 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 Duenweg is in
Duenweg sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Duenweg's own centroid rather than borrowed from Jasper County.
What Grows in Duenweg
Every plant below cleared Duenweg's own zone 7a and its 225-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Duenweg?
Rarely: the season closes in stages, not all at once, and each stage has its crops. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 26; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 26 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 6 — 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 Duenweg
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Duenweg. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Unknown - Zn/PbMining · 500 ft
- Franklin MineMining · 950 ft
- Vestry MineMining · 1000 ft
- Sayers MineMining · 1400 ft
- Pencil Frank MineMining · 1500 ft
- O. F. & L. MineMining · 1500 ft
- Log Cabin MineMining · 1800 ft
- Mack Mining Co. MineMining · 1900 ft
- St. Regis MineMining · 1900 ft
- Gooch MineMining · 2000 ft
- Double Eagle MineMining · 2000 ft
- Bob McKee MineMining · 2000 ft
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Duenweg'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 Duenweg.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Duenweg
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Duenweg
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Duenweg, Mining runs higher than the national average — 1,831 sites within ~10 miles of Duenweg. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Check your specific parcel in Duenweg
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 Duenweg average
Your land is one point inside Duenweg
Everything above resolves to Duenweg as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 2K 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 Duenweg Average
Duenweg Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Duenweg
- ●One soil character for all of Duenweg
- ●Frost dates read at Duenweg's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Duenweg's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Duenweg
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We read public map data around Duenweg — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Duenweg average
How we know this about Duenweg
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 Duenweg’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 Duenweg
When does frost risk typically end in Duenweg?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Duenweg typically lands around Mar 26, 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 16.
When is the first frost in Duenweg?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Duenweg typically arrives around Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 23, so the watching starts about Oct 7 — about 225 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Duenweg?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Duenweg sees about 225 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 23, about 190 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Duenweg?
The federal record around Duenweg runs heavier than most — 2,514 documented sites, mostly Mining entries (1,831), the nearest Mining record under a tenth of a mile out — so test the soil before planting food in the ground, and raised beds with clean imported soil grow well in the meantime. Even here, proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard; the contamination map shows exactly what's recorded and where.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Duenweg?
From about Oct 7 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 6 (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 6. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Duenweg's scale — its 7a band and its 225-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Duenweg'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 Duenweg’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Duenweg's own scale — its own ~225-day season between 28°F freezes, the 2,124 acres it covers and 2,514 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Duenweg's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Duenweg's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 6 and the ~225-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 2,514 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Duenweg, the closest Mining record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Duenweg's boundary and the 2,124 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~225-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Duenweg's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Duenweg's 2,124 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Jasper County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Jasper 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 Jasper County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Duenweg's 2,124 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Duenweg you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 2,124 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining 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 Duenweg-wide figureread your own land →
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