Frisbee, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b — a zone band wide enough that plant choice, not possibility, is the interesting question.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, prickly pear, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Frisbee, 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 Frisbee lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Frisbee — the short answer
Frisbee, Missouri: USDA zone 7b, about 257 days between hard freezes, across 512 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7b
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 11
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 23
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~257
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 512 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 7b is Frisbee's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Frisbee's 257-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Frisbee
Each reading below is measured for Frisbee itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredFrisbee runs about 257 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
MeasuredFrisbee sits in USDA hardiness zone 7b.
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 Frisbee is in
Frisbee sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Frisbee's own centroid rather than borrowed from Dunklin County.
What Grows in Frisbee
Every plant below cleared Frisbee's own zone 7b and its 257-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Frisbee?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 11; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 11 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 23 — 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 Frisbee
Survey cells within 31 miles of Frisbee checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 186 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Frisbee
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Frisbee. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- VICIOUS ENGINESBrownfields · 1.8 mi
- T20N R10E 33ACCNitrate · 2.7 mi
- HOLCOMB JUNCTION LTD INCUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.3 mi
- T20N R10E 06BDD1Nitrate · 3.7 mi
- T & P EXPRESSUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- GEORGE LUNA STOREUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- RONNIE MCELWRATHUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- BILL'S TEXACOUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- ROBINSON SERVICEUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- EARL JORDANUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.7 mi
- T20N R10E 06BDDNitrate · 3.7 mi
- T19N R09E 11DDCNitrate · 4.1 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Frisbee'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 Frisbee.
Total Sites
154
within ~10 miles of Frisbee
Risk Level
Moderate
Highest-severity
11 Toxics Release Inventory facilities
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Frisbee
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Frisbee
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Frisbee, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Frisbee — Nitrate (52 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (11 sites). Knowing it is half the work — and it's nothing a thoughtful grower can't plan for.
Nitrate: Nitrate contamination primarily comes from agricultural fertilizer runoff and failing septic systems.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Test well water for nitrate if you rely on a private well for irrigation (EPA standard: 10 mg/L).
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Frisbee
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 Frisbee average
Your land is one point inside Frisbee
Everything above resolves to Frisbee as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 512 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 Frisbee Average
Frisbee Average
- ●USDA Zones 7b, averaged across Frisbee
- ●One soil character for all of Frisbee
- ●Frost dates read at Frisbee's scale: Mar 11 to Nov 23
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Frisbee's 7b
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Frisbee
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Frisbee, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Frisbee averages can't show:
We read public map data around Frisbee — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Frisbee average
How we know this about Frisbee
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 Frisbee’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 Frisbee
When does frost risk typically end in Frisbee?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Frisbee typically lands around Mar 11, 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 1.
When is the first frost in Frisbee?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Frisbee typically arrives around Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 9, so the watching starts about Oct 24 — about 257 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Frisbee?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Frisbee sees about 257 frost-free days — roughly Mar 11 through Nov 23, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 1 to Nov 9, about 222 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Frisbee?
The federal record around Frisbee shows 154 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (78), the nearest Brownfields record about 1.8 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 Frisbee?
From about Oct 24 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 23 (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 23. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Frisbee's scale — its 7b band and its 257-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Frisbee'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 Frisbee’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Frisbee's own scale — its own ~257-day season between 28°F freezes, the 512 acres it covers and 154 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Frisbee's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7bUSDA PHZM 2023
- Frisbee's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 11 and Nov 23 and the ~257-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 154 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Frisbee, the closest Brownfields record about 1.8 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Frisbee's boundary and the 512 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7b and a ~257-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Frisbee's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Frisbee 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 Frisbee's 512 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Dunklin County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Dunklin 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 Dunklin County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Frisbee's 512 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Frisbee you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 512 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Brownfields record about 1.8 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 Frisbee-wide figureread your own land →