Everton, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a range where zone-matched perennials and frost-aware annual timing set what succeeds.
On paper, cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens all suit these conditions — on the ground, soil, sun, and drainage make the final call.
Even in Everton, 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 Everton lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Everton — the short answer
Everton, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 221 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 29
- 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
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 221 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 6b is Everton's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Everton's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Everton
Each reading below is measured for Everton itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredEverton runs about 222 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
MeasuredEverton sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b.
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 Everton is in
Everton sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Everton's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dade County.
What Grows in Everton
Every plant below cleared Everton's own zone 6b and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Everton?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Mar 1; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 29 (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 Everton
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Everton. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- EVERTON - C OUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- SEAMS SEW CRAFTYUnderground Storage Tanks · 750 ft
- T30N R25W 17ABANitrate · 850 ft
- 30N 25W 17ABA 01 EVERTON CITY WELL 1, MONitrate · 900 ft
- HOLLYWOOD DINERUnderground Storage Tanks · 950 ft
- T30N R25W 09CBB1Nitrate · 2300 ft
- CLARK'S QUICK STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 0.5 mi
- well SP-18Nitrate · 1.0 mi
- EVERTON L411370Underground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- EVERTONUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.2 mi
- MODA-23Nitrate · 4.6 mi
- Howard ShaftMining · 5.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Everton'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 Everton.
Total Sites
78
within ~10 miles of Everton
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Everton
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Everton
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Everton, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Everton — Mining (18 sites) and Nitrate (30 sites). It's not cause for alarm — it's worth knowing, and there's a sensible way to grow around 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.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
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Your land is one point inside Everton
Everything above resolves to Everton as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 221 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 Everton Average
Everton Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Everton
- ●One soil character for all of Everton
- ●Frost dates read at Everton's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Everton's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Everton
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We read public map data around Everton — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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How we know this about Everton
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 Everton’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 Everton
When does frost risk typically end in Everton?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Everton typically lands around Mar 29, 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 19.
When is the first frost in Everton?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Everton 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 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Everton?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Everton sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 29 through Nov 6, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 19 to Oct 23, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Everton?
The federal record around Everton runs heavier than most — 78 documented sites, mostly Nitrate entries (30), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles 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 Everton?
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 Everton's scale — its 6b band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Everton'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 Everton’s own scale
6 of the readings below were taken at Everton's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 221 acres it covers and 78 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Everton's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Everton's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 6 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 78 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Everton, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Everton's boundary and the 221 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Everton's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Everton's 221 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dade County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dade 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 Dade County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Everton's 221 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Everton you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 221 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.1 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 Everton-wide figureread your own land →
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