Eolia, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Crops well matched to these conditions include cabbage, blueberry, lavender, and collard greens — though what thrives on any one site still turns on its specific soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Eolia, 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 Eolia 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 Eolia — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Eolia — the short answer
Eolia, Missouri: USDA zone 6a, about 223 days between hard freezes, across 780 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 28
- 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
- ~223
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 780 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 Eolia's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Eolia's 223-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Eolia
Each reading below is measured for Eolia itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEolia runs about 223 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
MeasuredEolia 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 Eolia is in
Eolia sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Eolia's own centroid rather than borrowed from Pike County.
What Grows in Eolia
Every plant below cleared Eolia's own zone 6a and its 223-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Eolia?
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 28; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 28 (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. 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 Eolia
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Eolia. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- SMW SERVICE STATIONUnderground Storage Tanks · 1700 ft
- FASTLANE EOLIAUnderground Storage Tanks · 2100 ft
- BROWNS SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- SCOTTYS CONOCOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2200 ft
- JESSIE MAGEE TRUSTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2300 ft
- EOLIA MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.7 mi
- WHITESIDE STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- HARPER'S WELDING & AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- PIKE CO R-III SCHOOL DISTRICTUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.1 mi
- LOWELL CAPPSUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.4 mi
- THORO MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.5 mi
- T50N R01W 06CAA1Nitrate · 7.8 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Eolia'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 Eolia.
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Eolia
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •Near a brownfield, raised beds of imported soil give your food clean ground.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
Check your specific parcel in Eolia
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 Eolia average
Your land is one point inside Eolia
Everything above resolves to Eolia as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 780 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 Eolia Average
Eolia Average
- ●USDA Zones 6a, averaged across Eolia
- ●One soil character for all of Eolia
- ●Frost dates read at Eolia's scale: Mar 28 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Eolia's 6a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Eolia
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Eolia, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Eolia averages can't show:
We read public map data around Eolia — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Eolia average
How we know this about Eolia
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 Eolia’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 Eolia
When does frost risk typically end in Eolia?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Eolia typically lands around Mar 28, 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 18.
When is the first frost in Eolia?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Eolia 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 223 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Eolia?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Eolia sees about 223 frost-free days — roughly Mar 28 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 18 to Oct 23, about 188 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Eolia?
The federal record around Eolia is light — 22 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (18), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Eolia?
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 Eolia's scale — its 6a band and its 223-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Eolia'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 Eolia’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Eolia's own scale — its own ~223-day season between 28°F freezes, the 780 acres it covers and 22 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Eolia's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Eolia's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 28 and Nov 6 and the ~223-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 22 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Eolia, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Eolia's boundary and the 780 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6a and a ~223-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Eolia's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Eolia's 780 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Pike County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Pike 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 Pike County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Eolia's 780 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Eolia you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 780 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.3 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 Eolia-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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