Haywood City, Missouri, sits in USDA hardiness zone 7a — a band that supports both cool-season staples and warm-season crops chosen to fit the local frost window.
Reliable performers under these conditions include cabbage, hazelnut, california poppy, and collard greens; what your own ground favors still comes down to its soil, sun, and drainage.
Even in Haywood City, 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 Haywood City lot. Enter your address and we'll score 1,086 plants against your land's actual soil, sun, and frost.
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Haywood City — the short answer
Haywood City, Missouri: USDA zone 7a, about 244 days between hard freezes, across 274 acres of town.
- USDA zone
- 7a
- USDA PHZM 2023
- Last hard freeze (28°F)
- Mar 17
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- First hard freeze (28°F)
- Nov 16
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Days between freezes
- ~244
- NOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals, 28°F — this town
- Town area
- 274 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 Haywood City's average, not your lot's — a low corner or a tree line moves it. Against Haywood City's 244-day season, see what your own ground reads.
Soil varies lot by lot — soil types explained.
What this means for growing in Haywood City
Each reading below is measured for Haywood City itself — here is what it means for a garden here, and the move an experienced grower makes about it.
Season length
MeasuredHaywood City runs about 244 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
MeasuredHaywood City 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 Haywood City is in
Haywood City sits in the Mississippi Alluvial Plain — EPA Level III, inside the wider Eastern Temperate Forests. That is read at Haywood City's own centroid rather than borrowed from Scott County.
What Grows in Haywood City
Every plant below cleared Haywood City's own zone 7a and its 244-day season. Each card opens that plant's Missouri profile. How we score.
Is it too late to plant in Haywood City?
Usually not — gardeners here simply switch what goes in the ground as the season moves. Cool-season crops can go in from around Feb 17; tender transplants wait until two to three weeks after the last 28°F hard freeze, which lands near Mar 17 (NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals); and from midsummer, planting counts back from the first fall freeze around Nov 16 — 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 Haywood City
Survey cells within 31 miles of Haywood City checked for spotted lanternfly, none carrying a detection — a surveyed negative, not an absence of looking. Nearest documented record 172 miles off. What to watch for.
What's on the federal record near Haywood City
Closest first, within ~10 miles of Haywood City. Listing isn't leaking, and distance isn't exposure.
- T26N R14E 19CDD2Nitrate · 1.3 mi
- SCHOTT POULTRYCAFO · 1.8 mi
- T27N R14E 06ABBNitrate · 2.0 mi
- T28N R13E 34CAB2Nitrate · 2.3 mi
- MORELY SHEDUnderground Storage Tanks · 2.4 mi
- WHEELER TRUCK TRAILER EQUIPMENT CO-WHEELER TRUCK TRAILER EQUIPMENT COBrownfields · 2.6 mi
- WHEELER TRUCK TRAILER EQUIPMENT CO-WHEELER TRUCK TRAILER EQUIPMENT COToxics Release Inventory · 2.6 mi
- FREED FARMSCAFO · 2.9 mi
- SMITH'S GROCERYUnderground Storage Tanks · 3.6 mi
- T27N R13E 09BCANitrate · 3.6 mi
- R. FRAZIER FARMS INC.CAFO · 3.7 mi
- DIRNBERGER POULTRYCAFO · 3.9 mi
6 more sites are on the record inside the same radius. See them on the map
Measured from Haywood City'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 Haywood City.
Sources Checked
within ~10 miles of Haywood City
Severity Distribution
within ~10 miles of Haywood City
Highest-Severity Sites
A note from Gnorman
What an experienced grower watches for around here
In and around Haywood City, two things run higher than the national average within ~10 miles of Haywood City — CAFO (10 sites) and Toxics Release Inventory (14 sites). That's not a problem with your land — it's information about it.
CAFO: CAFOs pose a different contamination profile than chemical sources.
Toxics Release Inventory: TRI facilities report annual chemical releases to air, water, and land.
Wash all produce consumed raw thoroughly, especially leafy greens grown near CAFOs.
Check prevailing wind direction — downwind parcels face higher exposure than upwind or crosswind locations.
Check your specific parcel in Haywood City
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 Haywood City average
Your land is one point inside Haywood City
Everything above resolves to Haywood City as a whole — one PHZM band and one 28°F frost record, read across 274 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 Haywood City Average
Haywood City Average
- ●USDA Zones 7a, averaged across Haywood City
- ●One soil character for all of Haywood City
- ●Frost dates read at Haywood City's scale: Mar 17 to Nov 16
YOUR Parcel
- ✓Your exact zone, not Haywood City's 7a
- ✓Your SSURGO soil type & pH
- ✓Your sun exposure, cast in 3D
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Read your specific parcel in Haywood City
Pull a site-specific report for your exact address in Haywood City, Missouri — soil, sun, drainage, frost risk, and scored plant recommendations.
Three things about your lot that Haywood City averages can't show:
We read public map data around Haywood City — soil, climate, flood, and parcel records. How we handle your address.
25+ data sources read at your address, not the Haywood City average
How we know this about Haywood City
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 Haywood City’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 Haywood City
When does frost risk typically end in Haywood City?
The last hard freeze (28°F) in Haywood City typically lands around Mar 17, 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 7.
When is the first frost in Haywood City?
The first hard freeze (28°F) in Haywood City typically arrives around Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals — the point tender summer crops finish. Lighter frosts run ahead of it, near Nov 2, so the watching starts about Oct 17 — about 244 days after the spring freeze cleared.
How long is the growing season in Haywood City?
Measured between 28°F hard freezes, Haywood City sees about 244 frost-free days — roughly Mar 17 through Nov 16, per NOAA 1991–2020 climate normals. Tender crops work a shorter one: nearer Apr 7 to Nov 2, about 209 days.
Is the soil safe to grow vegetables in Haywood City?
The federal record around Haywood City is a meaningful one — 202 documented sites, mostly Underground Storage Tanks entries (95), the nearest Nitrate record about 1.3 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 Haywood City?
From about Oct 17 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 16 (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 16. Hardy greens and roots shrug off light frost and sweeten after it — leave them in.
Everything above is measured at Haywood City's scale — its 7a band and its 244-day season. Your yard writes its own version of Haywood City'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 Haywood City’s own scale
7 of the readings below were taken at Haywood City's own scale — its own ~244-day season between 28°F freezes, the 274 acres it covers and 202 documented sites around it; 4 are borrowed from a wider read, named and linked below.
Measured here
- Haywood City's own USDA hardiness band, zones 7aUSDA PHZM 2023
- Haywood City's own 28°F hard-freeze dates, about Mar 17 and Nov 16 and the ~244-day span between themNOAA 1991–2020 Climate Normals
- 202 documented contamination sites on the federal record near Haywood City, the closest Nitrate record about 1.3 miles out from the town centreFederal environmental registers
- Haywood City's boundary and the 274 acres inside itUS Census TIGER/Line 2025
- Which of 1,086 plants clear zones 7a and a ~244-day seasonGrowable Ground crop-matching engine
- The ecoregion at Haywood City's own centroid, the Mississippi Alluvial PlainUS EPA Level III Ecoregions
- Lanternfly survey cells around Haywood City 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 Haywood City's 274 acres read through its county's SSURGO summaryfrom Scott County
- Growing-degree days and winter chill — measured county-wide only, so the county page carries themfrom Scott 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 Scott County
What this page can’t tell you
- The soil pH, drainage, sun hours, and frost pockets on any one lot among Haywood City's 274 acreswhy one lot differs from the next →
- Which side of Haywood City you're on — a low spot frosts first and a south wall warms early, and one normal is being asked to speak for all 274 acresreading your own microclimate →
- How close that record sits to YOUR lot — the closest Nitrate record about 1.3 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 Haywood City-wide figureread your own land →