Fairdealing, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — room for a real mix of vegetables, fruit, and perennials matched to the local frost calendar.
Well-matched crops include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens, and the gap between "grows in the area" and "grows in your yard" is closed by soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Fairdealing, 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 Fairdealing 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 Fairdealing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
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Fairdealing — the short answer
Fairdealing, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 233 days between hard freezes, across 4K acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 22
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 10
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~233
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 4K 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 Fairdealing's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fairdealing's 233-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fairdealing
Each reading below is measured for Fairdealing itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFairdealing runs about 233 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
MeasuredFairdealing 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 Fairdealing is in
Fairdealing sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fairdealing's own centroid rather than borrowed from Ripley County.
What Grows in Fairdealing
Every plant below cleared Fairdealing's own zone 7a and its 233-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fairdealing?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 22; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 22 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 10 — 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.
Documented around Fairdealing
Survey cells within 31 miles of Fairdealing checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 220 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fairdealing
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fairdealing. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- TURNER'S GROCERY & FEEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- JOHNSON'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 1000 ft
- DEAN DAVISUnderground Storage Tanks · 2600 ft
- CROSSROADS CONVENIENCEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.7 mi
- PEMISCOT COUNTY CON PWSD 1PFAS · 4.9 mi
- OXLY MERCANTILEUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.2 mi
- MHTDUnderground Storage Tanks · 5.8 mi
- T22N R04E 11 1Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- T22N R04E 11BBB1Nitrate · 6.0 mi
- STRINGTOWN GROUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.2 mi
- T22N R04E 11Nitrate · 6.4 mi
- T23N R05E 34DCCNitrate · 7.2 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fairdealing'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 Fairdealing.
Total Sites
23
within ~10 miles of Fairdealing
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
10 nitrate monitoring sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fairdealing
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fairdealing
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •PFAS do not break down in groundwater. Irrigate from a tested source.
Check your specific parcel in Fairdealing
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 Fairdealing average
Your land is one point inside Fairdealing
Everything above resolves to Fairdealing as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 4K 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 Fairdealing Average
Fairdealing Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Fairdealing
- ●One soil character for all of Fairdealing
- ●Frost dates read at Fairdealing's scale: Mar 22 to Nov 10
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fairdealing's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fairdealing
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fairdealing, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fairdealing averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fairdealing — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fairdealing average
How we know this about Fairdealing
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 Fairdealing’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 Fairdealing
When does frost risk typically end in Fairdealing?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fairdealing typically lands around Mar 22, 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 12.
When is the first frost in Fairdealing?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fairdealing typically arrives around Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 27, so the watching starts about Oct 11 — about 233 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fairdealing?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fairdealing sees about 233 frost-free days — roughly Mar 22 through Nov 10, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 12 to Oct 27, about 198 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fairdealing?
The federal record around Fairdealing shows 23 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (12), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Fairdealing?
From about Oct 11 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 10 (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 10. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fairdealing's scale — its 7a band and its 233-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fairdealing'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 Fairdealing’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fairdealing's own scale — its own ~233-day season between 28°F freezes, the 3,649 acres it covers and 23 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fairdealing's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fairdealing's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 22 and Nov 10 and the ~233-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 23 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fairdealing, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fairdealing's boundary and the 3,649 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~233-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fairdealing's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Fairdealing checked, none carrying a detectionlydemapr (De Bona & Helmus), 10 km survey lattice
Inherited from a wider read
- Soil character — no town-scale survey exists, so Fairdealing's 3,649 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Ripley County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Ripley 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 Ripley County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fairdealing's 3,649 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fairdealing you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 3,649 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 0.2 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 Fairdealing-wide figureread your own land →
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