Easton, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Easton, 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 Easton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Easton — the short answer
Easton, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 212 days between hard freezes, across 377 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Apr 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 2
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~212
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 377 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 Easton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Easton's 212-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Easton
Each reading below is measured for Easton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEaston runs about 212 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
MeasuredEaston 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 Easton is in
Easton sits in the Western Corn Belt Plains — EPA Level III, inside the wider Great Plains. That is read at Easton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Buchanan County.
What Grows in Easton
Every plant below cleared Easton's own zone 6a and its 212-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Easton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 7; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Apr 4 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 2 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. With a season this long, “too late” mostly means “switch crops” — second sowings and a full fall garden are the norm, with garlic closing the year.
What's on the federal record near Easton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Easton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EARL V MILLER OIL COUnderground Storage Tanks · 100 ft
- T57N R34W 35AAD1Nitrate · 1.9 mi
- JACK D HUMEBrownfields · 2.0 mi
- RKJ BATTERIES INCBrownfields · 3.9 mi
- SOUTHWESTERN BELLUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.0 mi
- HEMPLE GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- FARMER SERVICE STATION - NOT IN USEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
- T57N R34W 29ACNitrate · 5.4 mi
- ANDREW COUNTY PWSD 2PFAS · 5.4 mi
- T58N R33W 26CCNitrate · 6.1 mi
- HERZOG RAILROAD SERVICES INC, ST JOSEPH MOBrownfields · 6.3 mi
- ELANCO US INCBrownfields · 6.4 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Easton'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 Easton.
Total Sites
189
within ~10 miles of Easton
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Easton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Easton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Easton, Toxics Release Inventory runs higher than the national average — 12 sites within ~10 miles of Easton. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Easton
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 Easton average
Your land is one point inside Easton
Everything above resolves to Easton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 377 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 Easton Average
Easton Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Easton
- ●One soil character for all of Easton
- ●Frost dates read at Easton's scale: Apr 4 to Nov 2
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Easton's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Easton
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Easton, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Easton averages can't show:
We read public map data around Easton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Easton average
How we know this about Easton
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 Easton’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 Easton
When does frost risk typically end in Easton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Easton typically lands around Apr 4, 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 25.
When is the first frost in Easton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Easton typically arrives around Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 19, so the watching starts about Oct 3 — about 212 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Easton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Easton sees about 212 frost-free days — roughly Apr 4 through Nov 2, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 25 to Oct 19, about 177 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Easton?
The federal record around Easton is a meaningful one — 189 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (100), 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 Easton?
From about Oct 3 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 2 (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 2. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Easton's scale — its 6a band and its 212-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Easton'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 Easton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Easton's own scale — its own ~212-day season between 28°F freezes, the 377 acres it covers and 189 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Easton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Easton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Apr 4 and Nov 2 and the ~212-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 189 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Easton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record under a tenth of a mile out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Easton's boundary and the 377 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~212-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Easton's own centroid, the Western Corn Belt PlainsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Easton's 377 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Buchanan County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Buchanan 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 Buchanan County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Easton's 377 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Easton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 377 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 Easton-wide figureread your own land →
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