Grandin, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — enough range to grow cool-season vegetables, hardy fruit, and warm-season crops that mature before the first hard frost.
These conditions suit cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens — a starting list any specific site will trim or extend with its own soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Grandin, 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 Grandin lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Grandin — the short answer
Grandin, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 222 days between hard freezes, across 256 acres of city.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 27
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 4
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~222
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- City area
- 256 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 Grandin's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Grandin's 222-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Grandin
Each reading below is measured for Grandin itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredGrandin 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
MeasuredGrandin 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 Grandin is in
Grandin sits in the Ozark Highlands — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Grandin's own centroid rather than borrowed from Carter County.
What Grows in Grandin
Every plant below cleared Grandin's own zone 7a and its 222-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Grandin?
Almost never — the real question is what to plant next. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 27; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 27 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 4 — 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.
Documented around Grandin
Survey cells within 31 miles of Grandin checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 234 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Grandin
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Grandin. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T25N R02E 11Nitrate · 950 ft
- ECONOMY AUTOUnderground Storage Tanks · 2400 ft
- ELLSINORE MAINT LOTUnderground Storage Tanks · 6.8 mi
- LEERJAK TRAVEL CENTERUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.3 mi
- ELLSINORE TRUCK & AUTO PLAZAUnderground Storage Tanks · 7.6 mi
- T36N R03E 04CBD1Nitrate · 8.1 mi
- ROBERTSON AUTO SUPPLYUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
- well OZ-12Nitrate · 8.2 mi
- POWELL'S ONE STOPUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
- EAST CARTER COUNTY R2 SCHOOL DISTUnderground Storage Tanks · 8.2 mi
- ROYAL OAK ENTERPRISES INC ELLSINOREToxics Release Inventory · 8.2 mi
- T26N R03E 05AAA1Nitrate · 8.6 mi
Measured from Grandin'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 Grandin.
Total Sites
16
within ~10 miles of Grandin
Risk Level
Low
Highest-severity
1 Toxics Release Inventory facility
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Grandin
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Grandin
Highest-Severity Sites
Know Before You Grow
- •On a private well, test for nitrates: above 10 mg/L the water needs treatment before irrigating.
- •Underground tanks leak petroleum as they age — near a former filling station, test the soil.
- •TRI facilities report what they release. Check the wind — downwind beds catch more of it.
Check your specific parcel in Grandin
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 Grandin average
Your land is one point inside Grandin
Everything above resolves to Grandin as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 256 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 Grandin Average
Grandin Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Grandin
- ●One soil character for all of Grandin
- ●Frost dates read at Grandin's scale: Mar 27 to Nov 4
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Grandin's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Grandin
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Grandin, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Grandin averages can't show:
We read public map data around Grandin — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Grandin average
How we know this about Grandin
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 Grandin’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 Grandin
When does frost risk typically end in Grandin?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Grandin typically lands around Mar 27, 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 17.
When is the first frost in Grandin?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Grandin typically arrives around Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Oct 21, so the watching starts about Oct 5 — about 222 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Grandin?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Grandin sees about 222 frost-free days — roughly Mar 27 through Nov 4, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 17 to Oct 21, about 187 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Grandin?
The federal record around Grandin is light — 16 documented sites across the 9 federal source types we checked, mostly Nitrate entries (8), the nearest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out — and proximity to a documented site is information, not a diagnosis of any one yard. Growing food here starts from a strong position; a soil test before new food beds settles any site-specific question.
How do I protect my plants from frost in Grandin?
From about Oct 5 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 4 (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 4. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Grandin's scale — its 7a band and its 222-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Grandin'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 Grandin’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Grandin's own scale — its own ~222-day season between 28°F freezes, the 256 acres it covers and 16 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Grandin's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Grandin's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 27 and Nov 4 and the ~222-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 16 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Grandin, the closest Nitrate record about 0.2 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Grandin's boundary and the 256 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~222-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Grandin's own centroid, the Ozark HighlandsUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Grandin 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 Grandin's 256 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Carter County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Carter 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 Carter County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Grandin's 256 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Grandin you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 256 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate 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 Grandin-wide figureread your own land →
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