Fountain N' Lakes, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
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 Fountain N' Lakes, 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 Fountain N' Lakes lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Fountain N' Lakes — the short answer
Fountain N' Lakes, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 226 days between hard freezes, across 83 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 6b
- 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 7
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~226
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 83 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 Fountain N' Lakes's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Fountain N' Lakes's 226-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Fountain N' Lakes
Each reading below is measured for Fountain N' Lakes itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFountain N' Lakes runs about 226 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
MeasuredFountain N' Lakes 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 Fountain N' Lakes is in
Fountain N' Lakes sits in the Interior River Valleys and Hills — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Fountain N' Lakes's own centroid rather than borrowed from Lincoln County.
What Grows in Fountain N' Lakes
Every plant below cleared Fountain N' Lakes's own zone 6b and its 226-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Fountain N' Lakes?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. 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 7 — long-season crops need about 90 days of runway, quick greens only 30. There is slack in a calendar like this — late plantings, second rounds of favorites, and a fall bench that keeps beds working.
Documented around Fountain N' Lakes
Survey cells within 31 miles of Fountain N' Lakes checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 241 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Fountain N' Lakes
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Fountain N' Lakes. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- PRESENTLY NO NAME (OLD SKELLY)Underground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- ANDY'S COUNTRY STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.2 mi
- EL RANCHO C STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.6 mi
- T49N R01E 13BCC1Nitrate · 2.9 mi
- PARKSIDE MINI MARTUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- EL RANCHO GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.5 mi
- T48N R01E 04CBA1Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- MOSCOW GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- MOSCOW MILLS - C OUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.9 mi
- WULFERT GARAGEUnderground Storage Tanks · 4.1 mi
- STEPHENS CUSTOM WOOD PRODUCTS INCBrownfields · 4.2 mi
- FASTLANE MOSCOW MILLS #47Underground Storage Tanks · 4.3 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Fountain N' Lakes'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 Fountain N' Lakes.
Total Sites
149
within ~10 miles of Fountain N' Lakes
Risk Level
Elevated
Highest-severity
2 Superfund sites
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Fountain N' Lakes
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Fountain N' Lakes
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Fountain N' Lakes, PFAS runs higher than the national average — 3 sites within ~10 miles of Fountain N' Lakes. That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Fountain N' Lakes
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 Fountain N' Lakes average
Your land is one point inside Fountain N' Lakes
Everything above resolves to Fountain N' Lakes as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 83 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 Fountain N' Lakes Average
Fountain N' Lakes Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Fountain N' Lakes
- ●One soil character for all of Fountain N' Lakes
- ●Frost dates read at Fountain N' Lakes's scale: Mar 26 to Nov 7
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Fountain N' Lakes's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Fountain N' Lakes
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Fountain N' Lakes, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Fountain N' Lakes averages can't show:
We read public map data around Fountain N' Lakes — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Fountain N' Lakes average
How we know this about Fountain N' Lakes
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 Fountain N' Lakes’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 Fountain N' Lakes
When does frost risk typically end in Fountain N' Lakes?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Fountain N' Lakes 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 Fountain N' Lakes?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Fountain N' Lakes typically arrives around Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 24, so the watching starts about Oct 8 — about 226 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Fountain N' Lakes?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Fountain N' Lakes sees about 226 frost-free days — roughly Mar 26 through Nov 7, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 16 to Oct 24, about 191 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Fountain N' Lakes?
The federal record around Fountain N' Lakes is a meaningful one — 149 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (82), the nearest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles 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 Fountain N' Lakes?
From about Oct 8 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 7 (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 7. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Fountain N' Lakes's scale — its 6b band and its 226-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Fountain N' Lakes'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 Fountain N' Lakes’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Fountain N' Lakes's own scale — its own ~226-day season between 28°F freezes, the 83 acres it covers and 149 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Fountain N' Lakes's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Fountain N' Lakes's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 26 and Nov 7 and the ~226-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 149 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Fountain N' Lakes, the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Fountain N' Lakes's boundary and the 83 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 6b and a ~226-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Fountain N' Lakes's own centroid, the Interior River Valleys and HillsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Fountain N' Lakes 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 Fountain N' Lakes's 83 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Lincoln County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Lincoln 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 Lincoln County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Fountain N' Lakes's 83 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Fountain N' Lakes you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 83 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Underground Storage Tanks record about 2.0 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 Fountain N' Lakes-wide figureread your own land →
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Wider growing context
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