Friedenswald, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 6b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
A short list that earns its place here — cabbage, hazelnut, lavender, and collard greens — with any one site's soil, sun, and drainage making the final cut.
Even in Friedenswald, 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 Friedenswald lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Friedenswald — the short answer
Friedenswald, Missouri: USDA zone 6b, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 65 acres of town.
- 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
- Town area
- 65 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 Friedenswald's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Friedenswald's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Friedenswald
Each reading below is measured for Friedenswald itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFriedenswald 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
MeasuredFriedenswald 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 Friedenswald is in
Friedenswald sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Friedenswald's own centroid rather than borrowed from Camden County.
What Grows in Friedenswald
Every plant below cleared Friedenswald'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 Friedenswald?
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. Here the season winds down slowly: late sowings, a real autumn harvest, and garlic in the ground before the first hard freeze.
Documented around Friedenswald
Survey cells within 31 miles of Friedenswald checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 352 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Friedenswald
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Friedenswald. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- Murphy DiggingsMining · 0.5 mi
- Floyd MineMining · 1.1 mi
- CARVEL INCToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- FIBERTEK CORPToxics Release Inventory · 1.8 mi
- BASS COVE RESORTUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- Unknown - Lead-ZincMining · 2.0 mi
- Y ROAD GENERAL STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.0 mi
- W J Williams DiggingsMining · 2.2 mi
- OZARK FORDBrownfields · 2.2 mi
- Ferry DiggingsMining · 2.4 mi
- BALLENTINE'S 5-81 ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- IMPERIAL FOAM & INSULATION MFG COUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.5 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Friedenswald'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 Friedenswald.
Total Sites
214
within ~10 miles of Friedenswald
Risk Level
High
Highest-severity
1 Superfund site (none NPL-listed)
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Friedenswald
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Friedenswald
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Friedenswald, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Friedenswald — Mining (29 sites) and PFAS (3 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Mining: Mining sites — both historic and active — can leach heavy metals (arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury) into soil and water for centuries after operations cease.
PFAS: PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are called "forever chemicals" because they do not biodegrade.
Test soil for heavy metals (lead, arsenic, cadmium, mercury) — this is essential near any mining site.
Test irrigation water source — this is the primary pathway for PFAS to reach garden crops.
Check your specific parcel in Friedenswald
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Your land is one point inside Friedenswald
Everything above resolves to Friedenswald as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 65 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 Friedenswald Average
Friedenswald Average
- ●USDA Zones 6b, averaged across Friedenswald
- ●One soil character for all of Friedenswald
- ●Frost dates read at Friedenswald's scale: Mar 29 to Nov 6
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Friedenswald's 6b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Friedenswald
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Friedenswald, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Friedenswald averages can't show:
We read public map data around Friedenswald — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Friedenswald average
How we know this about Friedenswald
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 Friedenswald’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 Friedenswald
When does frost risk typically end in Friedenswald?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Friedenswald 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 Friedenswald?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Friedenswald 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 Friedenswald?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Friedenswald 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 Friedenswald?
The federal record around Friedenswald runs heavier than most — 214 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (115), the nearest Mining record about 0.5 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 Friedenswald?
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 Friedenswald's scale — its 6b band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Friedenswald'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 Friedenswald’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Friedenswald's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 65 acres it covers and 214 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Friedenswald's own USDA hardiness band, zones 6bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Friedenswald's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 29 and Nov 6 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 214 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Friedenswald, the closest Mining record about 0.5 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Friedenswald's boundary and the 65 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 Friedenswald's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Friedenswald 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 Friedenswald's 65 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Camden County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Camden 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 Camden County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Friedenswald's 65 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Friedenswald you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 65 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Mining record about 0.5 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 Friedenswald-wide figureread your own land →
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